Freenas usenet setup guide.

[pirateghost]

I don't know why crontab is needed.

 

[danb35]

I don't know why crontab is needed.

To update the transmission blocklist.

 

[pirateghost]

To update the transmission blocklist.

Oh. I don't use torrents

 

[ozwaldca]

what section of ngnix.conf do i enter this? i am using vi and it is not that user friendly...lol

Replace or insert the relevant lines in /usr/local/etc/nginx/nginx.conf

server {
location ^~ /sabnzbd {
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8080;
}
location ^~ /transmission {
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:9091;
}
location ^~ /sickrage {
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8081;
}
location ^~ /couchpotato {
proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:5050;
}
}

 

[pirateghost]

You know thats not required, right?

 

[danb35]

crontab -u media -e

nothing happens.

I'm pretty sure something happens. It apparently isn't what you expect to happen, but even if it just drops you back to a shell prompt, that's something. Though you can probably safely skip the crontab entry for the time being.

I've never gotten the hang of vi. For minor editing jobs, I use nano. If that isn't installed in the jail, try ee.

 

[ozwaldca]

what isnt required the crontab or the proxy pass entries?

 

[pirateghost]

what isnt required the crontab or the proxy pass entries?

Neither affect the functionality of Usenet or those applications. In fact, it appears the crontab step is specifically for torrents...

 

[ozwaldca]

as i mentioned earlier.... not much unix here..... my little bit has been vi

 

[ozwaldca]

ok i will skip both then thanks!

 

[pirateghost]

The nginx step is for having ONE URL to go to and using /appname to get to those applications instead of using port numbers. Just set it up with port numbers for now and mess with the more advanced stuff later.

 

[danb35]

The proxy pass entries (a nice touch, IMO) let you go to http://jailip/sabnzbd, /transmission, etc., rather than needing to remember the port numbers for each of those apps. Or you could just bookmark each of the apps, in which case that's much less relevant.

 

[ozwaldca]

when starting services i am getting:
service transmission start && service sickrage start && servi ce nginx start
usage: chown [-fhvx] [-R [-H | -L | -P]] owner[:group] file ...
chown [-fhvx] [-R [-H | -L | -P]] :group file ...
Starting transmission.
Starting sickrage.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/pbi/sickrage-amd64/share/sickrage/SickRage/SickBeard.py", line 535, in <module>
SickRage().start()
File "/usr/pbi/sickrage-amd64/share/sickrage/SickRage/SickBeard.py", line 288, in start
sickbeard.CFG = ConfigObj(sickbeard.CONFIG_FILE)
File "/usr/pbi/sickrage-amd64/share/sickrage/SickRage/lib/configobj.py", line 1219, in __init__
self._load(infile, configspec)
File "/usr/pbi/sickrage-amd64/share/sickrage/SickRage/lib/configobj.py", line 1302, in _load
raise error
configobj.ParseError: Invalid line at line "1".
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/sickrage: WARNING: failed to start sickrage

 

[ozwaldca]

ok very kool i can use port numbers with no problem... my background is networking anyways...

 

[ozwaldca]

Looks like the sickrage pbi i downloaded wasnt a good copy?

 

[Steve Brown]

I am probably not too much help but I have installed sonarr(pretty much the same as sickrage) using the freenas plugin which creates another jail. Going back to your data question yes you have to link/map your storage. Think of a jail as a virtual environment or another machine. This is why some people simply install everything into one jail. When you install plugins it creates a jail for each plugin. So with that being said you will need to add storage to your jail. Here is a screenshot from mine.

 

[ozwaldca]

thanks for info.... although i got farther this time still not quite there....

i know understand the jail concept. i am ok addding all to one jail/environment!