Out of curiosity, what kind of stuff are you downloading that requires full speed downloads 24/7?

 

Some of use have over 40 hard drives in our unRAID severs. Take a wild guess!

Really, I have no idea...  I don't know what I'd do with 40 hard drives except have redundant backups of my backups... or give them away to friends

Really, I have no idea...  I don't know what I'd do with 40 hard drives except have redundant backups of my backups... or give them away to friends

 

You may want to stick to your occasional torrent, then...

My initial impression was that this stuff is for media centers and that it just automates the search for torrents, initiating the download, etc... I guess people are using it for other purposes beside video content, either that, or else they watch a LOT of TV and movies....

I've ran this script from telnet as root but no luck, says services are stared but in fact, nothing works. Help?

I used the unMenu packages from another thread and it seems to have installed fine though I haven't used the programs yet since I don't have a usenet account (yet).

Ok i figured it out, chmod of cache to 777 and it works so far.

Thanks, Jeff and Neil! I'm trying to set up SABnzbd and can't find a working usenet server in step 3 of the wizard... All this SABnzbd, Sickbeard, and CouchPotato stuff is new to me and I'm just trying to find out what it's all about... is it worth all the trouble compared to torrents?

 

You need to sign up for a nzb indexing site for $8/yr and a usenet site for $96/yr so it really isn't that big an outlay of cash. I'm using unsenetserver and nzbmatrix. Search for usenet deals instead of using their direct site offers, because you can't find the $96/yr by going direct to the company. Actually, go to the Sickbeard site and sign up through that which gives a little kickback to the Sickbeard developer.

 

You add all the TV shows you want to watch in Sickbeard and then they are just taken care of. It's makes it stupidly simple, really. You don't have to do a thing and $100/yr is cheap to stop wasting an hour here and 2 hours there. Sickbeard is supposed to do torrents but I've never tried it. The IT guy at work here basically said "yeah, but I just download for free so I'm not paying" until I convinced him to try Sickbeard and we share the usenet acoount now.

 

Peter

 

Hi folks,

 

Its great to hear all the intricacies about Usenet and such but lets leave that out in another thread. Lets keep the thread focused on this script.

 

Ok i figured it out, chmod of cache to 777 and it works so far.

Spylex can you give me more details? When did you have to do the chmod and what did you chmod?

 

Is it a command that needs to be added to the script or more of a note to the original post (ie if you use a cache drive chmod it).

 

thanks,

dpc

Well, there were complications so i went the unmenu way. It turns out now Sabnzbd has problems reading from my download dir. It might have something to do with me installing everything as root?

Hmm there should not be any complications because this script is very similar to the unMenu package. Perhaps you need to check the permissions on your download folder, incomplete, tmp folders.

 

Also if i understand correctly it should not matter under what user you install it under - the script runs the applications as nobody user.

 

~dpc

That is odd. After i changed everything to chmod 777 _custom and within custom i did chmod 777 * and it worked after that. It's quite peculiar. Does it matter if i have a parity drive or not?

Its great to hear all the intricacies about Usenet and such but lets leave that out in another thread. Lets keep the thread focused on this script.

 

Sorry to hijack your thread, I've started a new thread at http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=12643.0

I'm having the same problem as spylex, although chmod'ing everything in _cache hasn't fixed it. I see in rc.unraid_sabnzbd you have it starting as nobody. When I run python sabnzbd.py as root it works just fine.

 

Scratching my head on this one as to why chmod 777 won't work.

hmmm not sure at the moment. appears to be some simple permissions issue. Will put on the list to look into.

 

~dpc

Actually read this:

http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=11307.msg119253#msg119253

There is a setting in sabnzb - config/folders that sets the permissions for downloaded files. Set this to 666.

 

or see my post here: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=12494.0

 

Let me know if it works for you,

Tony

 

~dpc

Scratching my head on this one as to why chmod 777 won't work.

 

That enables the HIDDEN (and System) attribute when mapped to WinOS via SAMBA. That may or may not cause the user additional problems.

And the running as nobody thing with the permissions issues might be due to the differences in 5.0bX and the 4.X series.  The permissions settings were overhauled.

I went ahead an upgraded to 5.0 and it solved all my problems. Thanks for this script!

Thank you for the awesome script, I pointed the multicore par2 to your mirror and everything seems to have installed fine on 4.7 final. My setup is 22 disk, with 1 - 2.5 inch disk as a system disk and 1 - 2.5 disk as cache disk. Everything was installed on my system disk, and seems to be running fine. I will test further later on in the week and report back. The rest of the 20 disk will be used in a unraid disk array.

The script installed fine but nothing works after a reboot. I'm extremely new to this stuff.  Where do I need to start looking to diagnose the problem?

 

Edit: Couchpotato seems to start but not SABnzbd or Sickbeard.

I have this working before, I did a new installation today, and now only couchpotat is started ;-)

Help

 

//Peter

Is this script still good?  Or has the unRaid community moved on to something else?

Can someone tell me how we upgrade these applications ?

 

just click the upgrade button on each of the applications...