Thanks Kris!

I've added this to the main wiki page.

Excellent howto, but could be shortened slightly.

apt-get install python python-support python-cheetah python-configobj python-feedparser python-dbus python-yenc python-openssl unzip par2 unrar

wget http://switch.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/sabnzbdplus/SABnzbd-0.5.3-src.tar.gz tar -zxvf SABnzbd-0.5.3-src.tar mv SABnzbd-0.4.6 /opt/

python /opt/SABnzbd-0.5.3/SABnzbd.py -b0 -s 0.0.0.0:8085 --daemon

Point a bowser at you Nexenta box, port 8085, and run the configuration wizard. You're set.

SAB will still complain about unrar as it prefers newer versions, however it will still work. I'm going to look at how to add a newer version of the package to nexenta's repo's.

Thanks, skipping all the nonsense with par2 and unrar would be welcome. I just wasn't sure if par2 and par2cmdline were the same thing, and the unrar complained at first so I tried the manual method... which still complained.

A few other things that I did for sab to run it as its own user and add it to the services framework:

#
# link for easier upgrade later
ln -s /opt/SABnzbd-0.5.3 /opt/SABnzbd

# setup dedicated user
groupadd sabnzbd
useradd -g sabnzbd -c "SABnzbd User" -d /export/home/sabnzbd sabnzbd
mkdir -p /export/home/sabnzbd
chown -R sabnzbd:sabnzbd /export/home/sabnzbd

# Add SABnzbd to SMF - copy files attached to forum post to /tmp first
cp /tmp/sabnzbd /lib/svc/method/
chmod 755 /lib/svc/method/sabnzbd
svccfg import /tmp/sabnzbd-manifest.xml
svcadm enable sabnzbd

It runs well as its own user storing everything in the sabnzbd user's home directory. Makes upgrades much easier and adds a little bit of security.

-apnar

Many thanks, the service config thing was just the kind of thing I was looking for. Also, I modified your instructions/files and managed to get SickBeard running as a service as well :D

apnar,

Thanks for the direction to get sabnzbd running as a service, but I'm running into an issue where sabnzbd restarts itself every 30 seconds (I think?). Since there's no real GUI, I determined this after seeing some odd behavior in downloads and watching the PID change for the python process. Manually starting the program using the same command as the startup script and adding --daemon works fine however. Can you shed some light on what is happening with the restarts? I'd love to get all this up and running automatically.

Thanks

John W wrote:

Can you shed some light on what is happening with the restarts? I'd love to get all this up and running automatically.

You can try running the start up script yourself, something like this:

#
svcadm disable sabnzbd
su - sabnzbd
/lib/svc/method/sabnzbd start

you said you tried to run the same command the startup script is using, but did you do it as the sabnzbd user? The manifest I provided automatically runs the service as the "sabnzbd" user.

Also you can check for logs from SAB, the location is configured during initial setup (you can check the log_dir param in your config file). My guess is it's a permissions issue somewhere.

-apnar

So apparently I was running the daemon as root with this '/opt/SABnzbd/SABnzbd.py -d -f /export/home/sabnzbd/sabnzbd.ini -b0 -s 0.0.0.0:8085 --daemon" so there were no permissions issues then. When I run as sabnzbd, I get the same restarting issue I had when the program ran from startup.

I dug into the logs, and it looks like I'm getting a long string of sqlite3 database errors. I think I've figured out what happened...

• ran as root while setting it up, root created root owned .db files in /export/home/sabnzbd/admin (.ini file pointed to sabnzbd's home)
• sabnzbd user had no access to these files and threw errors every time a database transaction was supposed to happen

I believe I have it working now after correcting the permission issues. Thanks for the help!

I am having problems getting the manifest to import. I receive the following error when I try am I missing something simple?

svccfg import /tmp/sabnzbd-manifest.xml

svccfg: document DTD unknown; not service bundle? #

Thanks Ty

You have to follow the link he posted, then save the document you get in the next step or so. You're getting the page that has the XML linked on it... not the XML itself.

Thank you for the guide!

I'm having trouble with getting par2 (and unrar for that matter) from the repo's. I've tested both hardy-testing and hardy-unstable but can't find it. It seems it was available in elatte but not in hardy. Tried to compile it from source but I don't have the compiler tools installed it seems. I'm using NexentaStor v3.0.4 Community Edition btw.

Any help or tips would be greatly appreciated!

To get par2 working do the following: login using ssh as admin su to goto root permission then wget http://apt.nexenta.org/dists/hardy-unstable/contrib/binary-solaris-i386/contrib/utils/par20.4-10nexenta1solaris-i386.deb dpkg -i par20.4-10nexenta1solaris-i386.deb to do a manual download and install of par2.