porkpie5000

Well not exactly a completely new build. I just replaced the Intel DG965SS Core2 Duo motherboard in my server with a Supermicro X7SPA-HF-D525 ATOM mini-ITX. I used the old SO-DIMMs that came in my iMac and an Adaptec 1430sa to add 4 more SATA ports for a total of 10. It couldn't have gone smoother. The board is laid out nicely and was a breeze to get everything going. It also has IPMI on the first NIC so you can do remote monitoring and management. Just thought I'd put in a thumbs up for this board if anyone is looking for a mini-ITX solution. It is a little pricey but I'm really happy with it so far. Steve

Well... I got it working. Turned out that it was just a matter of svnserve not being started by the subversion add-in. Added that and now it works like a champ.

So does no one actually use the Subversion Unmenu add on? I assumed it used svnserve and didn't need apache.

I used unmenu to install Subversion on my unraid server. I used svnadmin to create a repository. Now I am trying to connect to that repository from TortoiseSVN on my Windows machine and am running into a brick wall. Can anyone point me in the right direction? I created the repository at /mnt/disk9/svn_repos if that helps at all. Thanks! Steve

I think I may have a cobbled together startup process. My go script contains #!/bin/bash # Start the Management Utility /usr/local/sbin/emhttp & #Execute scripts in /boot/custom/etc/rc.d fromdos < /boot/custom/etc/rc.d/rc.local_startup | sh I have 4 files in /boot/custom/etc/rc.d. They are: rc.local_startup S01-install_custom_packages S21-weekly_parity_check S30-start_unmenu I may have created S30-start_unmenu. I honestly don't remember. I contains one line. /boot/unmenu/uu I know I created the S21-weekly_parity_check file. I copied the contents from another post. As I said before, it mostly works. The job shows up when I do a crontab -l but it never seems to actually run. It contains #!/bin/sh crontab -l >/tmp/crontab grep -q "/root/mdcmd check" /tmp/crontab 1>/dev/null 2>&1 if [ "$?" = "1" ] then echo "# check parity on the wednesday morning at 2am:" >>/tmp/crontab echo "0 2 * * 2 /root/mdcmd check 1>/dev/null 2>&1" >>/tmp/crontab crontab /tmp/crontab fi I would happily change any or all of this if there is a better way to do it. I was under the impression that I was mostly doing things the "standard" way but if that isn't true or there is a better way, I am all ears. Thanks again for your help. This is by far the most helpful user community I have ever come across. Steve

Let me preface this with the statement that I am fairly Linux illiterate. I just plugged a monitor into my unraid box for the first time in a couple weeks and noticed something odd. It is never dropping to a command prompt after booting. The last line I get is "S30-start_unmenu[3431]: + /boot/unmenu/uu" and then a blinking cursor that just sits there. Unmenu is starting and working fine. I added a command after "fromdos < /boot/custom/etc/rc.d/rc.local_startup | sh" in my go script just to see if it got executed and it does not. The go script just seems to stop after unmenu starts. Any hints would be greatly appreciated. I'm attaching a screen shot in case that helps. Also, I don't know if it is somehow related (I don't see why it would be) but just above the unmenu stuff in the screen shot you will see where I am trying to schedule a parity check weekly. It gets added to crontab but it never seems to run. Can anyone see what I did wrong? Thanks! Steve

I am a fairly new unRAID user. I have also been writting software (mostly Windows) for a living for the past 16 years. So far, I have been really happy with the product and have recommended it to friends/coworkers that need media storage. The active and very supportive user community was one of the reasons I decided to buy it. In the short time I have been here, I have seen no reason to believe that LimeTech is any bigger than 1 or 2 people. I think that explains some of the frustration that people are having. In my experience I have found that it is rare to find someone that is good at/interested in both system level programming and UI programming. Obviously Tom has the system thing down. A trait I have noticed in hard core system guys is that a lot of them don't even really care about an elegant UI. Give them a command line and they are peachy. Obviously I have never even met Tom but it is possible that this description fits him. I don't think that is a good or a bad trait. It is just what it is. Hiring a UI developer, even on contract, isn't going to be cheap. If UI isn't really something that Tom cares about, it may be a tough sell to convince him to spend that money. As far as supporting add-ons goes, I think he has to tread that line carefully. If it seems like he is "officially" supporting something, people may decide he is on the hook for providing support for it. That could be a burden that he doesn't want to take on. Especially if LimeTech is just a few people. I can see that support matrix getting out of hand very quickly. Even responding to support issues with a "that problem is caused by a third party widget" takes time and some people would feel like they were just getting the brush off. I'm not saying these add-ons are a bad thing. I am happily using some of them and I greatly appreciate the time it took to develop them. I can just see why maybe Tom is reluctant to show support for them. All that said, I would love to see a modernized UI put on unRAID. Something CSS based so it would be easily skinnable. At the least I would like to see that dreaded "restore" button renamed and explained a little better. Some things like integrated email alerts and automated error/parity checking seem like obvious deficiencies. I was pretty shocked when I realized they weren't part of the product. You mean I have to remember ever week or month to go manually run a parity check?!?! Oh well... those are just my 2 cents on the subject. Like I said at the top, I am really happy with the core functionality of the product. There just seem to be a few holes that it would be nice to plug.