If I install a plugin via the unmenu package manager and want it to stay installed everytime I boot, do I need to enable "reinstall on every boot"? I experienced that the plugins that were 'installed' prior to a reboot, remain 'downloaded but not installed' after boot... 

 

Most user-plugins come with a plg file that I put in /boot/config/plugins and install via installplg /boot/..... After that I have a nice new category in the unraid settings menu, which I like. The thing is: every time I boot the machine the plugin says NOT INSTALLED. What do I have to do, to have them up and running every time I boot up unraid? If you will to 'reinstall them on every boot'. (I have to say though, that as a windows user I am quite confused about this, as this would totally crash it to install some things on every boot.  But i think unraid starts in kind of a "clean" state and then loads all plugins?!)

What do I need to set as 'install directory', or even 'data directory'?

I am talking about influencers sabnzbd, sickbeard, couchpotatov2 and also dropbox, tvheadend and TeamspeakServer

Ok, I see that most people set their 'install directory' to the cache drive. I don't have a cache drive can I simply set this to some place on the /flash drive? i.e. /boot/install/ or something like that? What is even stored in that directory?

it's always my recommendation to leave the install directory on the default (/usr/local/.....) to install the app on the ramdisk. (it will be reinstalled every reboot, if you have the plugin enabled (set enable to yes))

but you should set the data directory on a cache disk or an array disk. DON'T use the flash disk. there will be a lot of writes, which will shorten the lifespan of your flash disk.

 

example for sabnzbd:

install dir: /usr/local/sabnzbd

data dir: /mnt/disk1/apps/sabnzbd

run as: nobody

 

if you have any more trouble, that the plugin is not correctly installed on bootup, please post a syslog

ahh okay, thank you! Do I have to set anything special to START them on every boot, I don't feel this is happening as default...

if you have enabled the plugin (as i wrote, set enable to yes), the plugin should automatically start and install.

Ok, I have a fresh installation of unraid. The only thing I installed is the ts3server plugin, here are the settings:

SERVICE="enable"
INSTALLDIR="/usr/local/ts3server"
DBPATH="/boot/config/plugins/ts3server"
RUNAS="root"

set enable Teamspeak to Yes, when I click Apply it startes and says RUNNING on the settings site. But when I restart unraid, the plugin has not started. I have to click apply to start it and all the settings are lost, I get a completely fresh teamspeak server, no channels saved etc.

 

edit: When I hit apply I can read:

/etc/rc.d/rc.ts3server enable root /usr/local/ts3server /boot/config/plugins/ts3server
Starting TeamSpeak Server: sudo -uroot /usr/local/ts3server/teamspeak3-server_linux-x86/ts3server_startscript.sh start

Do I need to apped something of that to the /boot/config/go script? But that would not solve the problem with the lost settings...