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How to run Wuala on a Linux server
I'd like to know how to run Wuala on a Linux server (with no X server) that is always online.
Currently I launch Wuala using "wualacmd" then I use the "login" and "startTrading" commands.
Could I do all that automatically? (actually do I need to execute these commands? or just automatically start wualacmd would be enough?)
Currently I launch Wuala using "wualacmd" then I use the "login" and "startTrading" commands.
Could I do all that automatically? (actually do I need to execute these commands? or just automatically start wualacmd would be enough?)
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startTrading only needs to be called once. It is then saved as a setting. You also don't need to be logged in to earn storage. So once you have configured Wuala to trade storage for you, all you need to do is to start it.
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Inappropriate?i guess for you to be able to earn storage and publish/offer/spread your own files you still need to login to your account.
what about pipes/scripting into the wuala commandline? does it accep commands through pipes? that could be a method for automation. -
Inappropriate?startTrading only needs to be called once. It is then saved as a setting. You also don't need to be logged in to earn storage. So once you have configured Wuala to trade storage for you, all you need to do is to start it.
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How does it attribute your storage credit properly without being logged in? If it's tied to my IP, then when it changes, I will no longer receive credit. Unless there is a unique ID for each client or something. How does that work? -
Inappropriate?hmm interesting.. so if you have one computer with one wuala installation and have used that wuala for multiple persons/people (multiple username/password) to log into it, who will it earn storage for?
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Inappropriate?When you execute the "tradeStats" command it says:
"Earned storage is split among 1 users of this computer"
so if you had multiple users I guess earned storage is splitted between them.
Another question: if I execute automatically wuala at start-up, then is it possible to connect to this running instance? (to use tradeStats or connectionInfo for example) -
Inappropriate?That's right. If multiple users are using the same Wuala installation on the same computer and all of them have activated trading, the earned storage is split evenly among them. However, we are not sure yet whether that is the fairest and best solution in the long run.
It is not possible yet to connect to a running instance, unless you use the 'screen' command to start it so you can reattach to its input/output again later. (I haven't tried this myself. :) ) -
Inappropriate?I know this probably won't be an easy request to fullfill, but a c-based storage trading client (i.e. not Java-based) would be quite a useful feature for wuala.
I'm using a NAS (NSLU2) running Debian (little-endian, btw) with 1TB+ attached to it. Running wuala at least in storage trading mode would obviously suggest itself but the hardware specs don't really support anything running on java (32 MB Ram, variable amount of swap space but this would hurt overall performance too much).
Since I am (hopefully) not the only one running a low-spec NAS, this might be something you might want to consider, as this might provide lots of 24/7 reliable storage contributors.6 Comments Add a comment
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How about running Wuala on a regular system that simply uses the NAS as the storage device?
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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.) -
One more NSLU2 user here. Would love to see a real linux standalone client.
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one more nslu2 user here!! a slow and fast (that meens no java!!) linux client would be great!!
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+1 ... I also have a NSLU2 with 300M attached ... would be so great if I could use it for trading storage on wuala ...
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+1 ... I also have a NSLU2 with 300M attached ... would be so great if I could use it for trading storage on wuala ...
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Inappropriate?The "screen" command works fine ;)
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Inappropriate?a feature to auto-login (or re-login oafter auto-restart) would be nice so that I can have the remote linux box doing the backup. -
Inappropriate?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.
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Inappropriate?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. -
Inappropriate?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?
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Inappropriate?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.
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Yes, screen is very wonderful. If you can even change the default "command character" from the default of CTRL-A.
Default: screen -e^aa
I use CTRL-P: screen -e^pp
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Inappropriate?Thank you very much for the "screen" idea! That's a really cool tool. You answered my question perfectly!
I’m happy
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Inappropriate?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.1 Comment Add a comment
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Yes, hopefully someone using NAS would be able to see everything on it anyway. Unless I'm REALLY missing something.
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Inappropriate?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 !!!
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