It's probably moot by now since everyone seems to like the .plg naming convention but c'mon folks - if it's an xml file it should have .xml at the end and then ANY xml editor will work just fine. 

 

People are mostly right about the extention not mattering *after the plugin is coded and tested* but while you are editing it you just want to fire it open in you xml editor and tweak away.

 

My humble $0.02.

Yes this might be an issue with race condition between network coming up and plugins being installed.  On my test system (atom based) it's slow enough that it's not an issue, but I'll look into this.

 

This is still the case for UnRaid 5b12a.  Here is a snippet from my log clearly showing the plugin installer running (and failing) before the network grabs a DHCP lease.  The only thing I canged in the log is my test URL for my image since I didn't want to disclose my personal website at the moment but rest assured the real URL does work and if I run the installplg script manually it successfully installs the plugin.

 

Oct 11 16:04:46 Tower logger: installing plugin: hello_world-1_0-noarch-1ds
Oct 11 16:04:46 Tower logger:  file /boot/config/plugins/hello_world/hello_world.png: downloading from http://www.blockedfornow.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/fan_speed.png ... bad download, deleting
Oct 11 16:04:46 Tower emhttp: unRAID System Management Utility version 5.0-beta12a
Oct 11 16:04:46 Tower emhttp: Copyright (C) 2005-2011, Lime Technology, LLC
Oct 11 16:04:46 Tower emhttp: Basic key detected, GUID: 
Oct 11 16:04:46 Tower emhttp: get_config_idx: fopen /boot/config/flash.cfg: No such file or directory - assigning defaults
Oct 11 16:04:46 Tower emhttp: shcmd (1): udevadm settle
Oct 11 16:04:46 Tower emhttp: Device inventory:
Oct 11 16:04:46 Tower emhttp: VMware_Virtual_IDE_Hard_Drive_00000000000000000001 (hda) 1048576
Oct 11 16:04:46 Tower emhttp: VMware_Virtual_IDE_Hard_Drive_01000000000000000001 (hdb) 1048576
Oct 11 16:04:46 Tower emhttp: shcmd (2): modprobe md-mod super=/boot/config/super.dat slots=3 |& logger
Oct 11 16:04:46 Tower kernel: xor: automatically using best checksumming function: pIII_sse
Oct 11 16:04:46 Tower kernel:    pIII_sse  : 11213.600 MB/sec
Oct 11 16:04:46 Tower kernel: xor: using function: pIII_sse (11213.600 MB/sec)
Oct 11 16:04:46 Tower kernel: md: unRAID driver 2.1.3 installed
Oct 11 16:04:46 Tower kernel: mdcmd (1): import 0 3,0 1048544 VMware_Virtual_IDE_Hard_Drive_00000000000000000001
Oct 11 16:04:46 Tower kernel: md: import disk0: [3,0] (hda) VMware_Virtual_IDE_Hard_Drive_00000000000000000001 size: 1048544
Oct 11 16:04:46 Tower kernel: mdcmd (2): import 1 3,64 1048544 VMware_Virtual_IDE_Hard_Drive_01000000000000000001
Oct 11 16:04:46 Tower kernel: md: import disk1: [3,64] (hdb) VMware_Virtual_IDE_Hard_Drive_01000000000000000001 size: 1048544
Oct 11 16:04:46 Tower kernel: mdcmd (3): import 2 0,0
Oct 11 16:04:46 Tower emhttp: shcmd (3): /usr/local/sbin/emhttp_event driver_loaded
Oct 11 16:04:46 Tower emhttp_event: driver_loaded
Oct 11 16:04:47 Tower emhttp: shcmd (4): :>/etc/samba/smb-shares.conf
Oct 11 16:04:47 Tower emhttp: Start SMB...
Oct 11 16:04:47 Tower emhttp: shcmd (5): /etc/rc.d/rc.samba start |& logger
Oct 11 16:04:47 Tower logger: Starting Samba:  /usr/sbin/nmbd -D
Oct 11 16:04:47 Tower logger:                  /usr/sbin/smbd -D
Oct 11 16:04:47 Tower emhttp: shcmd (6): ps axc | grep -q rpc.mountd
Oct 11 16:04:47 Tower emhttp: _shcmd: shcmd (6): exit status: 1
Oct 11 16:04:50 Tower dhcpcd[980]: eth0: offered 10.22.6.178 from 168.114.154.7
Oct 11 16:04:50 Tower dhcpcd[980]: eth0: acknowledged 10.22.6.178 from 168.114.154.7
Oct 11 16:04:50 Tower dhcpcd[980]: eth0: checking for 10.22.6.178
Oct 11 16:04:53 Tower login[1112]: ROOT LOGIN  on '/dev/tty1'
Oct 11 16:04:55 Tower dhcpcd[980]: eth0: leased 10.22.6.178 for 432000 seconds

 

Cheers Tom!  Hope you can squash this.