Stray Ink: Firefox Sync Server

This is my one step install for weave-minimal. Originally for Raspbian, it seams to work on kubuntu as well.

In my previous post I documented a way to get a Firefox sync server running on a Raspberry Pi. After some re-working of things I started that system over and discovered that I'd made a few mistakes in my documentation. Rather then make the same mistakes again, I re-documented in the a form that guarantees, that all the steps are tested and working. Here's my bash install script that I used to re-install the weave-minimal server on my clean copy of Raspbian .

Download complete script from here:

#!/bin/bash

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initscriptlocation=/etc/init.d/weave-minimal

apt-get install python-setuptools
 
easy_install -U weave-minimal

# init information from readme :: 
# https://github.com/posativ/weave-minimal#setup-and-configuration
#
# WARNING! 
# accept from all hosts.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  
# Understand, that there may be good reasons not to allow this. In my case, the 
# server isn't actually hosted on the internet, just internally.
# YOYO applies

useradd www

echo  '#!/bin/sh

### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides:          weave-minimal
# Required-Start:    $all
# Required-Stop:     
# Should-Start:      
# Should-Stop:       
# Default-Start:     2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop:      0 1 6
# Short-Description: weave-minimal firefoxsync service
### END INIT INFO

name=weave-minimal
user=www
command=/usr/local/bin/weave-minimal
host=--host=0.0.0.0
logfile=/var/log/$name.log
pid=/var/run/$name.pid
port=8080
dbPath=/var/lib/weave-minimal/

start() {
          pidnumb=`cat $pid`
          
          if [ -n $pidnumb ]; then         
               pidstatus=`ps aux | grep $pidnumb | grep $command`
            else
               pidstatus=
          fi
               
          if [ -z "$pidstatus" ]; then
            
               echo "Starting $name."
               touch $pid
               chown $user $pid
         
               touch $logfile
               chown $user $logfile
               
               if [ ! -d $dbPath ]; then
                 mkdir -p $dbPath
               fi
               
               touch $dbPath
               chown $user $dbPath

start-stop-daemon --start --background --pidfile $pid  \
               --chuid $user --make-pidfile --exec $command -- --data-dir=$dbPath \
               $host --port=$port --enable-registration --log-file=$logfile
            else
               echo "$name already running."
          fi
        }

stop()  {
          echo  "Stopping $name."
          start-stop-daemon --stop --retry TERM/5/TERM/5/TERM/5/KILL/5 --pidfile $pid
        }
        
status()  {
            pidnumb=`cat $pid`
                                      
            if [ -n $pidnumb ]; then         
                 pidstatus=`ps aux | grep $pidnumb | grep $command`
              else
                 pidstatus=
            fi
               
            if [ -n "$pidstatus" ]; then
                 echo  "$name running."
              else 
                 echo  "$name stopped."
            fi 
         }

if [ ! -d $DBPATH ]; then
    mkdir /var/lib/weave-minimal
    chown $USER /var/lib/weave-minimal
fi
                                                          
case "$1" in
    start)
          start && status
          ;;
    stop)
          stop && status
          ;;
    restart|reload|try-restart|force-reload)
          stop && status && start && status
          ;;
    status)
          status
          ;;
    *)
          echo $"$name Control script.
  Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|reload}"
          exit 1
esac
exit 0

' >  /etc/init.d/weave-minimal

chmod 711  /etc/init.d/weave-minimal

update-rc.d weave-minimal defaults

After installing, on the Pi,

I went to Tools/Sync and entered the following:

(Incidently, the server is the ip address of the my Pi. I use dhcp address reservation on to assign it the same address every time.)

after clicking next I was rewarded with

Stray Ink

Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Firefox sync server on a Raspberry Pi running Raspbian: Update. One step install