I am trying create the following symlink and am getting the following error:

root@media:/boot/config/plugins/subsonic# ln -s /usr/bin/unrar /boot/config/plugins/subsonic/transcode/unrar
ln: creating symbolic link `/boot/config/plugins/subsonic/transcode/unrar': Operation not permitted

 

I want to do this so that I can get subsonic to play rar files without unpacking them. I have googled the error, and see that you cannot create symlinks on a FAT32 filesystem, which the flash drive uses.

 

I just wanted to see if anyone was aware of any workarounds, or some other way I would be able to accomplish this.

 

Thanks.

Create a shell script wrapper that calls the other program with $*

 

 

#!/bin/bash

exec /full/path/to/otherprogram $*

 

 

Awesome, this sounds like a good idea. So if I want a file called unrar placed in the /boot/config/plugins/subsonic/transcode directory to call /usr/bin/unrar I would

 

#!/bin/bash
exec /usr/bin/unrar $*

 

and thats it?

Yes, or just copy the file into the directory and have two copies.

 

 

you do have to make sure the script variants are executable with

chmod a+x /boot/config/plugins/subsonic/transcode/unrar

 

 

 

I do the shell script thing often with other platforms.

Solaris in particular because gnu software exists in /usr/sfw/bin with various names to prevent collision with the sun variants.

 

Thanks man, I am going to try it shortly and i'll let you know how it worked. One thing I noticed, and I might be crazy, not sure, but I made the file and came back a little later and it was gone. Not sure how that happened, maybe I deleted it somehow but I dont think so. Anyway, its there so as soon as subsonic scans the dirs im gonna try it.

 

Thanks a ton for your help.