nalfeshnee Wrote: > Just a note -- if you have previously installed the .deb package, then > "switching over" to a slimserver based on the tarball is not > difficult. > > I don't have a login on the server right now, but you only need to do a > few things, like: > > (assuming we place the tarball under /opt/slimserver/) > > 1. Create /opt/slimserver/slimserver as a soft link to > /opt/slimserver/slimserver.pl. > 2. Edit the /etc/init.d/slimserver script to point to > /opt/slimserver/slimserver rather than /usr/bin/slimserver (or wherever > the .deb package places slimserver) > 3. Modify the startup script again to make sure that you are not > loading the old .pref file: comment out the reference to > /etc/slimserver/slimserver.pref, and insert a new one for > /opt/slimserver/slimserver.pref, for example. (As I understand it, > slimserver creates this file if it doesn't exist, so no problems > there.) > > I switched back to a stable 6.2.2 tarball from the 6.5b1 .deb > yesterday, just by making the few changes as listed above. Haven't > tested things thoroughly but it seems to work fine -- starts > slimserver_safe and slimserver on reboot, etc. > > Cheers, > > Ed
Hi Ed, Thanks very much for this. I have 6.5b1 deb packaged installed and then I followed your instructions to the tee and now I have slimserver 6.3 (from tarball) running on my Ubuntu Breezy 5.10 box (according to ps) but I cannot connect to it on port 9000. It does not seem to be fully up and running and is not even logging anything to the log file. I'll look into it. (netstat -pal | grep 9000 didn't return anything, so nothing is listening on 9000.) Which slimserver_safe should it be running? I seem to have one only for 6.5b. Anyway, one thing I would suggest (to Slimdevices) is that is would be better (easier for us to maintain out systems) if it was the table 6.3 version that was installed by default from the deb nightly package, and that the tarball fiddling that I have just been thorough would not be necessary. BUT, if we want the latest 6.5b programmes, then we could get a 6.5b tarball and manually edit the scripts/links to point to the 6.5 stuff. This makes more sense to me as I think most people would want stable (i.e. 6.3) packages by default in their Ubuntu systems and if they want to try the latest beta, then they can do the manual script editing. In other words, I think we should have the exact opposite (6.5b / 6.3 package) situation to what we have right now. Make sense? Any comments? -- tricia ------------------------------------------------------------------------ tricia's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=5895 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=20603 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
