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Here is a short Howto run Wuala on a Debian Shell (german)

http://www.open-netlab.de/content/wua...

this works for other Distries as well as on Debian e.g. Suse, RedHat...

i try too keep that Howto up to date as much as possible !!!!

Hope i can help !!!

Ingo

Adding a 'me too' here. I would like wuala on my nslu2 (debian version) as it's on all the time and I network share my files around my network.
As for using the NAS as just a storage device, that defeats the objective completely. The whole benefit of a NSLU2 is that it can become a small server in itself and not require another system to run (using more electrical power etc.) – kabads, on July 27, 2008 12:16

How about running Wuala on a regular system that simply uses the NAS as the storage device? – hjvjglkbsbfb, on April 13, 2008 03:33

there is an easy way to data from the nfs share readable outside of the localhost (e. g. on an headless server). Just create a softlink pointing the wuala-nfs-share to another nfs or any other share you can read from outside.

Thank you very much for the "screen" idea! That's a really cool tool. You answered my question perfectly!

use screen.

Here's how:
when you are connected to your machine using ssh, call the following command:

screen
(press Enter to continue)

You are now in a screen session. Whatever you do inside this session will continue to run when you close the ssh-session. Run wualacmd inside this shell.
You can temporarily leave the screen-session by pressing Ctrl+"a" followed by "d". You can close it by exiting the application you're running and exiting the shell (Ctrl+"d").

When you log in to your machine via ssh again, you can resume control of your screen-session with the following command:

screen -r

For further information on screen, use "man screen". Should screen not be installed on your machine, try installing it via your packet manager, i.e. sudo apt-get install screen on Debian/Ubuntu.

My problem has been that when I run that command in an ssh session, it kills the wuala process when I log out of the ssh session. I ssh back into the server and there is no java process running. Does this mean that wuala is not sharing and earning storage?

Hmm, today it's correct without restart. Yeah, it will be great(er) when the interval will be shorter.

It should update at least once per day. Ok, maybe we could make that interval shorter. :)

You can start wuala with the argument -nogui. This will launch it in commandline mode. This interface is quite limited, but you can setup a storage node that way that will earn storage for you. You can then use the earned storage to store data into Wuala, using Wuala on any other computer.

Wuala does not allow NFS connections from others computers than it is running on. So you need to install Wuala on every computer from which you want to access your stored data.

How would I start Wuala from an SSH session on a headless server? I'm trying to wrap my head around running Wuala full-time on this headless server and dumping files onto it from an NFS share on my desktop.

Thanks.

But for sure.
You have to update your java instance. It had to be 1.5 or later. in readme.txt:
"Make sure you have Java version 1.5 or later installed."

And then I think, it will run wunderfull ;->

hello

i installes wuala as told in the readme txt

i extracted wuala to /home/dfutu/wuala

after that i installed portmap and added this line to fstab

localhost:/wuala /home/dutu/wuala/direct nfs defaults,users,noauto,rsize=8192,wsize=8192,timeo=14,intr

java version says

dutu@dutu-laptop:~/wuala$ java -version
java version "1.4.2-02"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build Blackdown-1.4.2-02)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build Blackdown-1.4.2-02, mixed mode)

also i did all that and exectuted ./wuala.cmd or wuala nothing happens

i also copied the loader to ./config
and im using ubuntu 7.10

dutu@dutu-laptop:~/wuala$ ./wuala
Using config file /home/dutu/.config/wualarc
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: com/wuala/loader/Loader (Unsupported major.minor version 49.0)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass0(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:539)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:123)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:251)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$100(URLClassLoader.java:55)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:194)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:187)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:289)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:274)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:235)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:302)

can someone help me fo fixx that??

It doesn't work.
You have to start wuala before mount the directory.
And the parameter -mount also dind't work.
But it will work, when I run a skript on booting up linux which will start wualacmd and mount the dir.

So, the only question is, how to run wuala as a deamon? I don't know if the wualacmd have to run always. Because, when I'm exit the wualacmd, then the I will loose the mountpoint...
So, is there a parameter like "-runasdeamon" by wualacmd?

Other Question: Can I show all the commands available for wualacmd?

I don't think it's necessary to start Wuala before fstab. Wuala tries to mount the drive on startup by calling 'mount direct' in the current directory. If your mount directory is at a different place, you can specify it with the '-mount' argument on startup, e.g. './wualacmd -mount /home/user/wuala/direct'.

heaven, it works.
OK, first i started the wuala with "wualacmd -noportmapregistration".
Then, i tiped: "mount -t nfs localhost:/wuala /wuala/direct/" (for /wuala is my $WUALADIR).

So, now the problem is, how to start the wualacmd automatically BEFORE linux is running the fstab?
I know, this is a linux-question, but I hope, you can help me also. I had googled, but didn't found a solution.

The only prob is that this nfs ist read-only, but this will be solved I heard.

Yes for example.
I don't know if you know mrtg. mrtg can get data from a snmp client or you can give the mrtg just the value (%), so mrtg will paint the graph.
Hmm, unfortunately I can not run 2 wualacmd at one time...
Simply said: I just need hourly (or just reagularly) the % value from wuala. The best would be when I can give mrtg the path to the script, and with this script I get the "tradeStats". When I have this, let's say, this output will be someting like this:
---------------------------------
Average online time: 16.00%
Current limit: 10 GB
Last update: Feb 11, 2008
Locally stored data (according to the other users): 0 B
Earned storage: 0 B
Earned storage is split among 1 users of this computer
---------------------------------

Then I can get with this command the '16' out of this export:
cat "outpu from somewhere" | grep Average | awk '{print $4}' | cut -c 1-2

Question: When I start the wualacmd, must this instance be up and running to share and count the online time? Or could wuala run as a deamon (that would be veeeeery nice)?