Hi All,

 

Second post

 

I have been at this now for over a week and it took me nearly 2 days to work out how to install pluggins !!

 

Really struggling at the moment.. and have been looking every where for this information that I need.

 

So can someone please help me and point me the right direction,

 

I have the following questions

 

1) Is there a post on how to uninstall a plugin 

2) what is the command to delete or rename a directory

 

Sorry if these seem like obvious questions however you dont know what you dont know !!

 

Thanks

Rod

 

1) make sure you can see your flashdrive as a share from your pc/mac;

 

2) get the plugin file and save it on your flashdrive in the directory /config/plugins

 

(For the simplefeatures plugins: save these in /plugins)

 

3) stop array and reboot

 

Thats all, where does it go wrong ?

If you really feel like using a telnet session to make/remove/delete directories the commands are mkdir/rm (-r)(-f)/mv

 

So to make a directory cd to /config then "mkdir plugins"

 

If you want to remove the dir cd to /config "rm -rf plugins"  *note* -r is recursive and -f is force

 

To rename in linux you just move the file: mv test.txt new.txt.    *note* this would rename test.txt to new.txt

 

Not sure your experience with linux but some other basic commands you may use.

 

List dirs/files: ls

Change dirs : cd (path/dir you want)

Yes you can that also, you can even install the plugins without rebooting.. I was trying to give the simplest and robust form possible..

Yes you can that also, you can even install the plugins without rebooting.. I was trying to give the simplest and robust form possible..

 

Yup I understand. I just figured he may have a use for it since he also requested the commands for renaming a folder. Granted he could always just use the explorer on his computer to rename it.

2) what is the command to delete or rename a directory 

 

Delete a DIR:-

rm -r /dir/

 

Note:- That will completely destory anything in that folder, if you use it on a dir like "/" you will completely remove everything.

 

To rename a DIR:-

rename orginalDIR newDIR

or

mv originalDIR newDIR

 

1) Is there a post on how to uninstall a plugin 

 

In most cases it's as easy as removing the p(k/l)g file and restarting the server, then deleting any persistent files you asked it to save. If you want to stop it now (without restarting), it really depends on the plugin.

If you really feel like using a telnet session to make/remove/delete directories the commands are mkdir/rm (-r)(-f)/mv

 

So to make a directory cd to /config then "mkdir plugins"

 

If you want to remove the dir cd to /config "rm -rf plugins"  *note* -r is recursive and -f is force

 

To rename in linux you just move the file: mv test.txt new.txt.    *note* this would rename test.txt to new.txt

 

Not sure your experience with linux but some other basic commands you may use.

 

List dirs/files: ls

Change dirs : cd (path/dir you want)

For unrAID, the config directory is under /boot, so the correct command to remove ALL plugins is

cd /boot/config

rm -rf plugins

 

Better is to rename the directory, that way you can easily rename it back if you want the plugins active once more.

cd /boot/config

mv plugins plugins_old

 

or with the full path

mv /boot/config/plugins /boot/config/plugins_old

 

To remove a specific plugin, you need to remove all its .plg files and then reboot.

rm /boot/config/pluginname.plg

 

 

 

Excellent. All very valuable information. Again thanks for taking the time to respond.