timsutton

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  1. the 5.0 beta is already subject to enough feature-creep. a big part of 5.0 was to incorporate a plugin system, and isn't Simple Features essentially a plugin? Tom has enough on his hands keeping the core code stable as he tests kernel upgrades to squash bugs. If Tom were to seriously consider adding all these extra features himself, we'd be waiting much longer for a stable 5.0 release. As far as marketing goes, unRaid's core functionality offers features that no other product does, period. For free. It's a no-brainer to set up as a basic NAS. What more do you want?
  2. Sounds like you have "php" loaded as an add-on. Okay, this php conflict gets posted several times for every beta release. Don't the docs say to disable *all* 3rd party extensions before attempting the upgrade?
  3. I'm fairly sure it does. It's one of the features on their website. I've heard ChronoSync works fine for people. I also regularly run an rsync command to shove my photography database to the server, choosing to not preserve permissions in order to cooperate with unRaid's simplified security model. (I'm on 4.7) OS X doesn't "think a folder is a file." All flavors of Unix consider a folder to be a type of file, along with most components of the running OS itself. It would be nice if there was more convenient merging options built into the filesystem commands, but the engineers know better than to make assumptions about how it should work for the user, and rsync already exists. It's also not enough to feel good about how a dialog looks before committing to a mass file merge. You should test first on a small set of data, to confirm that it will do what you expect it to.
  4. Pick up a copy of Path Finder? Maybe there's a trial version that will do all you need to do. Maybe in 10.8 Apple will finally decide this is a feature worth stealing from Windows 95.
  5. Evidently it's been fixed in 0.6.26.. related to Snow Leopard Bonjour client stuff. http://avahi.org/ticket/284
  6. There's a lot of rsync GUIs out there, if you google it. There's also Platypus, a wrapper for turning a script into an app. My "script" is literally just one line, aside from the header: #!/bin/sh rsync command Once in a while I just open terminal and type "photo-sync.sh" which is what I named my script, and placed it in /usr/local/bin. Or, you can paste the rsync command into a plain text editor, save it with a ".command" extension, and Finder should recognize it — you might need to set its permissions to executable. Then it's a double-click. You can make it automatically run at login, put it in your dock, whatever.
  7. I do this for my Lightroom catalog with this command: rsync -avhPE --delete --exclude *Previews.lrdata --exclude .DS_Store /path/to/backup/folder/ root@unraid:/mnt/user/photo Assuming I have a passwordless key login working, this is a non-interactive command. --delete keeps the unraid backup as a mirror, so files I delete locally get deleted on the backup. I have a couple filename patterns that are excluded as well, for example all the previews I don't need taking up more space. The -a archive option takes care of a bunch of metadata things I believe, but someone please suggest if you've more appropriate arguments to pass to rsync.. I'm a bit paranoid about all the right Mac filesystem attributes getting properly copied. Bombich has an article about the flags for a verifiable Mac backup but I find most of those options no longer exist or have been encompassed in other options. If you want to run this regularly, you can wrap this in a shell script and then make a LaunchAgent or LaunchDaemon for it to run at a scheduled interval.
  8. Perfectly happy with my Asus P5B VM DO board I bought used for $50. Official Limetech supported board, has 7 onboard eSATA, gigabit NIC, one 16x and one 4x PCI-E, 4 RAM slots.
  9. Interesting, I never needed to tweak this for things to work, however I did sometimes experience a hang of the login screen if there had already been another session started in a different browser. When that happened, I would just restart the vmware init.d, which was easy enough since I'm only trying to manage a single VM, at least for now.
  10. Thanks for those suggestions. I finally cracked it, and am embarrassed I didn't find the solution much, much sooner (before even trying VirtualBox). I didn't notice until now the vmware folder in /var/log, and when I checked the hostd log, I saw that PAM wasn't being loaded due to missing libraries. PAM was installed fine all along, but I needed to install five other dependency libraries it was needing to run. It's too bad it didn't log that error to syslog, considering it breaks the entire VMware management subsystem! I now have these packages running in my go script, notice that I'm using pam 1.1.0: installpkg /boot/packages/gnutls-2.2.2-i486-1sl.tgz installpkg /boot/packages/libgpg-error-1.4-i486-1.tgz installpkg /boot/packages/libtasn1-1.7-i486-1sl.tgz installpkg /boot/packages/libgcrypt-1.2.4-i486-1.tgz installpkg /boot/packages/libprelude-0.9.22-i486-1sl.tgz installpkg /boot/packages/linux-pam-1.1.0-i486-1gufo.txz I don't know if these packages would have been installed already on others systems.. or as part of a full dev system. My dev system probably was failing for the same reason, but I may have somehow left out those packages on it. VMware turns out to be the best option for me, at least for now, anyway. My main reason for needing a VM was to consolidate my music library by managing it with iTunes, so it's accessible and modifiable via iTunes shares and the smb share. My CPU is so old it doesn't support VT-x, and recent iTunes versions won't run under VBox without VT-x, at least not on my system, after trying various workarounds that work for some and not others. Under VMware the issue isn't there. Although I now realize that it's time to spend the $50 and upgrade the CPU to something more substantial
  11. Thanks, I'll move back to the other thread. Wish I had the proper hardware to run unRAID sitting on an ESXi server, if people seem to have this working.
  12. Thanks. I temporarily gave up on VMware and tried VBox when I could not for the life of me get the PAM authentication to work. Tried about four different versions of PAM, as well as some config mods that were suggested on some slackware/VMware threads. As far as I could tell nobody needed any other modification other than installing the linux-pam package, no configuring files, etc. I've posted this in the other bigger VMware thread, hoping someone may have other suggestions. I enjoy VBox's simplicity, but I'm finding that it's rather unstable. I'll frequently come back to a VM after letting it run a few hours to find that it's no longer accessible, the VBoxHeadless process is no longer running, etc. I'm running a swapfile and with my /opt and /tmp folders symlinked to a persistent drive. I'd still love to try VMware Server for comparison, if I could just log in to the web interface! I've read that in recent versions Virtualbox's Linux implementations took a dive in stability.
  13. So, having read in the other thread that SysV is supported in recent unRaid kernels: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=6939.msg69860#msg69860 I downloaded VirtualBox on my dev system. Steps: 1. Executed the downloaded .run file. VirtualBox was unpacked and modules were built once I pointed it to the default kernel source directory at /usr/src/linux, containing the matching kernel. 2. I created a Windows XP vm using a few VBoxManage commands. 3. Started the vm using VBoxHeadless. That's it. It works flawlessly so far. I'm only interested in bridged ethernet and so that's all I've tried as far as networking, but it works great. I installed VirtualBox additions later by using the included .iso file. I haven't tried running it on the stock unRaid, so I would need to look at how it's possible to manage any temp directories and possibly swapfiles. What's nice is that the install seems to keep everything in one place (/opt/VirtualBox). VM disks get created where you choose to put them, and the VM XML files get created by default in .VirtualBox in the root user directory. Seems easily manageable — the install footprint is about 100 MB. Creating VMs in command-line is probably more tedious than using a web interface like VMware, but I like the simplicity of it.
  14. It is my understanding the current unRAID kernel has SysV included. So is anyone running it on recent unRAID kernels?
  15. VMware needs the kernel source to build its modules that will insert into a given kernel. Most people are compiling the kernel so that they can bring a Slack distribution to the same kernel (with unRaid's custom kernel modifications). From there, they can test the VMware build because they are running the same kernel as the stock unRaid on a separate system. VMware's installer will test that the kernel modules load properly as part of its configuration process, so one would want to be running on the same kernel as stock.
  16. okay, I'm completely wrong on that, having now done my research. If you visit the much longer VMware thread you'll see lots of people have the modules running on a stock unraid. It's VirtualBox that requires support for SysV added to the stock kernel.. VMware just needs the modules to be compiled against the same kernel sources, and can then be run on a stock system.
  17. Thanks to the great instructions from musicmann, WeeboTech and bubbaQ, I managed to compile VMware Server 2.0.2 on a Slack dev system (based on 12.2) on the most recent 4.5.6 kernel, 2.6.32.9-unRAID. Made the packages and everything's properly installed on a spare drive in my unRaid production box running off USB. Seriously, it's been many years since I had to compile a kernel and the clues about getting the right IDE/SATA drivers for booting were very useful. My issue is with PAM. I've scoured these forums and others to figure out why my login as root is still being rejected. I have tried 4 different versions of pam — 0.99.10, 1.0.2, 1.0.4, 1.1.0, with no luck. All the VM modules start properly, and my error shows that the login is being rejected, not that it can't load the pam libs or configs, etc. I've seen a few slackware/vmware-related threads where people solved it by either removing the third line from the config ("account required"), adding "shadow nullok" to the end of the second line, etc. I've tried these things but no luck. I noticed there's also pam config files in /etc/vmware/pam.d.. anyone know if these should be modified in any way? I've found two slack threads where a confirmed solution is posted to a pastebin or some other forum two years ago, but of course those sites are disappeared by now. It doesn't seem like I *should* have to modify the config files at all, because any issues that have come up on this thread have just required installing a specific version of pam and that's it. I'm wondering if there could be some issue with the fact that I'm running a more recent kernel than was available when most of the activity was happening in this thread (2008). Because otherwise the dev system and pam versions are the same, and my config files point to the right place. The only other thing I'm considering trying is just compiling and installing pam myself. Or is it even possible that in recompiling the more recent kernel, I managed to leave out some option that PAM requires support for? I'd hope that if this were the case, the libraries would fail to load in the first place and would indicate in the error log. Any ideas would be extremely helpful!
  18. pretty sure you need to re-compile your kernel with added support for the vm-related functionality. haven't re-read the long VMWare thread recently.. probably not just a matter of "just" adding drivers to stock. that said, i'd applaud it if Tom were willing to add support to the stock kernel, but i know he's busy with more pressing matters. question: is it possible to build and test a VM-supporting kernel inside a slackware VM? i've already got a basic slack dev system for building other packages. i think i remember reading that it's not possible to run VMWare server inside a VM.
  19. I built a basic Zotac ION box for XBMC about six months ago, first started using just an iPhone remote software. Found it pretty annoying (needing to get the phone + look at the remote for everything I was doing), so ordered a $20 HP MCE remote. The XBMC live install found it easily enough with lirc, though I needed to program the codes myself, which was kind of a PITA, and figuring out the translation from remote code to message, from message to XBMC commands, etc. All in all that took a couple hours to figure out. Also, it's surprising what basic functions are absent from this generic MCE remote (eject, dvd menus, etc.) Some of the default commands aren't exactly obvious, especially to others (for example, press "play" to get a context menu). A few custom mappings will be necessary. I did have the old school XBox remote with my Xbox, but couldn't get it to work with my mod to USB, and I never really liked the remote in the first place anyway. Just now have my unRaid up and running and it's working great with XBMC. Never really pleased with its library mode, except possibly with TV episodes. Mostly just stick to file mode viewing.
  20. Ditto, I'd love it if someone has a snapshot of a working slimserver install. I tried doing a manual install from a recent version of slimserver, but was running into a lot of permissions issues. Would be curious how portable an install really is, provided it's easy to re-initialize its database, etc. and one has the necessary dependencies already installed on top of a normal unRaid system.
  21. I had similar criteria as you, minus needing the extra PCI-E expansion. I just went for the P5B VM DO since I saw it was an official LimeTech supported board, and couldn't be happier. Got it used on eBay for $45 plus shipping, and as expected everything worked out of the box. Upgrading the BIOS helped with a couple little issues related to drive booting and CPU detection, and ASUS's bios upgrade utility was super painless. You get a seventh port on a separate JMicron bus if you want it as well.
  22. i used both cases, then Antec 300 and now CM590, for my unRAID. (a) CM590 has only ONE 120mm case fan, it does come with another one in a 4-in-3 HDD cage. (b) Antec 300 comes with two case fans, one 120mm, one 140mm both allow you to add more case fans but to cool hard disk by adding fan in the front, antec 300 has better design. CM590 you can have same effect if you use 4-in-3 HDD cage like this one. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817993002 Interesting. Maybe the 300 makes more sense after all. I don't need the 4-in-3 cage right away, and I didn't realize there's actually space for two 120mm fans in front as I get past my 3rd or 4th drive. Has anyone tried fitting the Cooler Master 4-in-3 in the remaining 5 1/4" bays in the Antec 300?
  23. Thanks for that - didn't realize it was as cheap (or slightly cheaper in this case). I've always liked Antec stuff, though I guess the advantage with installing separate 4-to-3 bays after the fact is that each one has its own space for a fan, keeping the cooling possibly more uniform across disks. Am I right that both the 590 and (Antec) 300 come with two fans, just that Antec's is mounted on top and the CM 590's is mounted in front of its 4-3 cage?
  24. So what's the difference between the cage that comes with the 590 and the STB-3T4-E3-GP? http://www.coolermaster.com/product.php?product_id=2542 They are still compatible, no?
  25. thanks all for the feedback (keep it coming). looks like the 590 with one extra CM 4-in-3 is the way to go. i'm not concerned about the reset switch — missing speaker kind of sucks, but if it's really a problem i can probably salvage one from another case. the 5-in-3 supermicro's seem kind of steep compared to the price of a 4-in-3 (which are really a bargain), and i don't need the hot-swap-ability or density. btw thanks weebotech for your mt-daapd package. i've built the latest rev. (supports transcoding more natively) for my unRaid, once i get it up and running i'll probably package it up. not a slackware user normally so the pkg format's a bit alien to me.