WD MyCloud and Minimserver

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(07-04-2017 20:21)Soli Wrote:  

(24-09-2016 10:16)simoncn Wrote:  

(24-09-2016 02:12)Soli Wrote:  The My Book Live seems to use standard Debian SysV init. But for some reason it doesn't start. It does start when I log in and run /etc/init.d/minimserver start. I've tried giving it S99 and adding some required starts as seen in the twonky init file. It also doesn't seem to parce rc.local. Maybe mybooklive is doing it's own custom init. But if you look at some other guides to installing squeezebox server and other things, they are using init.d. Kinda strange but I haven't had time to figure this out yet.

Please let me know if you find a solution.

Just found out how. I'll make a new thread, since someone might be googling for the same and get confused by the title of this thread.

I can't see that new thread, but I have made the init process on my MyBookLive kick off the minimserver.

Here's the net effect of what I did (see below for the twists along the way):

Create the attached file as /etc/init.d/minimserver - note that it refers to the location of the minimserver installation - this may need editting. Then, at the comand prompt:

MyBookLive:~# chmod 755 /etc/init.d/minimserver
MyBookLive:~# ln -s ../init.d/minimserver /etc/rc2.d/S99minimserver

This creates a link from /etc/rc2.d to the executeable file in /etc/init.d
Executeables in rc2.d are run at the second phase of reboot and S99... files are invoked at the last gasp (ie 99th out of 99).

After creating the file & permission & link, the command:

MyBookLive:~# /etc/rc2.d/S99minimserver start

Will start minimserver, and this will be invoked at reboot.

Now the twists: at first, I created the /etc/init.d/minimserver file with the contents "cd /shares/Public/Minim/minimserver/bin && ./startd ; cd -" and on running it for the first time, got the message
Migrating autostart configuration
This is issued by minim, and the file is replaced with contents close to the attached file. However, the PATH doesn't contain Java, so I put this in: "PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin"

Thanks to all for helping make this work, special thanks to Simon.


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