I would really like to get hellanzb working on my unRaid box for usenet downloads via nzb files.  http://www.hellanzb.com/trac/  I've had some success in installing a few other useful packages on unraid (midnight commander, proFTP, etc), but hallanzb is a bit more involved and I would really appreciate any advice/help. 

 

Prerequisites http://www.hellanzb.com/trac/#Prerequisites

• twisted
  
• rar (or unrar)
  
• par2cmdline
   
  

 

I already installed unrar thanks to link in a previous post http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=1476.0

 

I have no idea how to get twisted installed.  It looks like there are windows and ubuntu/debian packages available for download, or you can grab the source tarball (not sure how to compile that).

 

par2cmdline http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=30568&release_id=161776 has packages for several distro's available, but slackware isn't one listed.  Are any of the other distro's compatible with slackware?

 

And finally, hellanzb itself is written in python.  Is python already available in unRaid or would I need to grab that as well?

 

I would really like to get this working and perhaps others would find it useful as well, but I'm finding the learning curve to be pretty steep here and I'd much appreciate any help anyone could provide.

 

~J

sorry i can't give you any pointers, as i'm totally new to Linux and unRAID as well...but would you mind telling us how you got proFTP to work? did you mod the slackware portion of unRAID as per one of the posts suggestions? i was able to do the Midnight Commander and Twonky Media Server installs, but those were very basic.

 

hope you get one of the Linux cracks on the forum to help you out with hellanzb soon.

 

 

sure, here's what I did.  I have given root a password via the web interface and log in with that account.

 

Download proftpd version.  The latest version didn't work but this version did. http://packages.slackware.it/package.php?q=current/proftpd-1.3.1-i486-1#download

 

Add the following to the end of your go script:

installpkg /boot/packages/proftpd-1.2.10-i486-4.tgz

cp /boot/packages/proftpd.conf /etc

proftpd

 

Copy the proftpd tgz file to /boot/packages

Copy the proftpd.conf to /boot/packages

(the "packages" directory I created to store all my customization packages, you can put it someplace else if you prefer.  If you do, be sure to change the above go script as well.)

 

reboot unraid via web interface (stop, reboot) and you should have ftp access.

 

I've attached the modified proftpd.conf file you'll need to be able to log on using root.  Basically the needed changes from the default config is:

ServerType standalone

UseFtpUsers off

RootLogin on

 

 

[Anybody have any advice regarding hellanzb?]

 

xbit, i really appreciate the help...i tried what you suggested but ran into a snag...since i don't want to hijack your thread any further, i started a new "proFTPd" thread...would you have the time to take a look at what my hang-up is and maybe tell me what you think causes it? i'm really close, i think.