I found the missing system script (please see below) from a back up and copied it to the /etc/init.d directory with the name "boinc-client" and everything is back to normal now.
Code:
#!/bin/bash
#
# BOINC - start and stop the BOINC client daemon on Unix
#
# SysVInit start/stop script to run the BOINC client as a daemon at
# system startup, as the $BOINCUSER (not root!).
#
# This version has been modified for Fedora/RHEL.
#
###
# chkconfig: - 98 02
# description: This script starts the local BOINC client as a daemon
# For more information about BOINC (the Berkeley Open Infrastructure
# for Network Computing) see http://boinc.berkeley.edu
# processname: boinc-client
# config: /etc/sysconfig/boinc-client
#
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: boinc
# Required-Start: $network
# Required-Stop: $network
# Default-Start:
# Default-Stop: 0 1 2 6
# Short-Description: This script monitors the BOINC client.
# Description: This script starts the local BOINC client as a daemon
# For more information about BOINC (the Berkeley Open Infrastructure
# for Network Computing) see http://boinc.berkeley.edu
### END INIT INFO
#
# Based on the init script provided by:
# Eric Myers <myers@vassar.edu> - 27 July 2004
# Department of Physics and Astronomy, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie NY
# Eric Myers <myers@spy-hill.net>
# Spy Hill Research, Poughkeepsie, New York
#
# Rewritten by Milos Jakubicek <xjakub@fi.muni.cz> - 10 March 2009
# Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University Brno, Czech Republic
########################################################################
# Defaults, which can be overridden by putting new NAME=value lines
# in /etc/sysconfig/boinc-client
# Name of user to run as:
BOINCUSER=boinc
# Working directory.
BOINCDIR="/var/lib/boinc"
# Name of the client executable.
BOINCEXE="/usr/bin/boinc_client"
BOINCCMD="/usr/bin/boinccmd"
# Cgroup to be used: this is necessary to ensure low scheduling priority for Boinc
CGROUP_DAEMON="cpu:/background"
# Log and error files (should be placed in /var/log/ to avoid SELinux related issues)
LOGFILE="/var/log/boinc.log"
ERRORLOG="/var/log/boincerr.log"
# BOINC options: for the command line when running the client.
BOINCOPTS=
# Service name
prog=boinc-client
# Subsys lock file
LOCKFILE="/var/lock/subsys/$prog"
# Init script function library.
. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions
# Look for any local configuration settings which override all above
[ -e /etc/sysconfig/$prog ] && . /etc/sysconfig/$prog
# Verify the $BOINCDIR working directory exists
if [ ! -d $BOINCDIR ]; then
echo -n "Cannot find BOINC directory $BOINCDIR"
echo_failure
echo
exit 7
fi
# Verify the $BOINCEXE executable exists
if [ ! -x $BOINCEXE ]; then
echo -n "Cannot find an executable for the BOINC client."
echo_failure
echo
exit 2
fi
# Create cgroup and set minimum CPU priority
cgcreate -g $CGROUP_DAEMON
cgset -r cpu.shares=2 `echo $CGROUP_DAEMON | cut -f2 -d:`
# Warn if there are no projects attached
cd $BOINCDIR
if [ ! -d projects ] ; then
echo -n "BOINC client requires initialization (no projects attached)."
echo_warning
echo
fi
check_status() {
status $BOINCEXE >& /dev/null
}
start() {
check_status && exit 0
echo -n $"Starting $prog: "
# Check that we're a privileged user
if [ `id -u` != 0 ] ; then
echo -n "Insufficient rights."
failure
echo
exit 4
fi
# Check that log files exist, otherwise create them with proper ownership
if [ ! -e $LOGFILE ]; then
touch $LOGFILE && chown $BOINCUSER:$BOINCUSER $LOGFILE
fi
if [ ! -e $ERRORLOG ]; then
touch $ERRORLOG && chown $BOINCUSER:$BOINCUSER $ERRORLOG
fi
daemon --check $BOINCEXE --user $BOINCUSER +10 "$BOINCEXE $BOINCOPTS --dir $BOINCDIR >>$LOGFILE 2>>$ERRORLOG &" >& /dev/null
# Check that boinc is running, give it a few tries
TRY=0
while [ $TRY -lt 10 ] ; do
check_status && { touch $LOCKFILE; success; echo; return; } || sleep 1
let TRY+=1
done;
check_status && { touch $LOCKFILE; success; } || failure
echo
}
stop() {
cd $BOINCDIR
check_status || exit 0
echo -n $"Stopping $prog: "
killproc -d 10 $BOINCEXE
rm -f $LOCKFILE
echo
}
reload() {
check_status || { start; exit; }
action "Reading configuration: " $BOINCCMD --read_cc_config | sed -e "s/retval.*//" -e "N;s/\n//;"
}
restart() {
stop
start
}
case "$1" in
start)
$1
;;
stop)
$1
;;
reload)
$1
;;
restart)
$1
;;
force-reload)
reload
restart
;;
condrestart|try-restart)
check_status || exit 0
restart
;;
status)
status $BOINCEXE
;;
*)
echo $"Usage: $0 {start|stop|status|restart|condrestart|try-restart|reload|force-reload}"
exit 2
esac
exit $?