**** BEGIN LOGGING AT Sun Mar 16 02:59:56 2008
Mar 16 04:03:46 <shenson> hi, I'm trying to mount a nfs share on my slug, I'm using slug os/be, is it possible?
Mar 16 04:05:03 <mwester> Yep.
Mar 16 04:07:59 <shenson> yup, found the kernel module, don't know how I missed it 
Mar 16 04:08:47 <mwester> :)
Mar 16 04:09:16 <mwester> autofs even works... but it takes a lot of memory so it isn't really practical.
Mar 16 04:11:09 <shenson> I only have one mount :-D
Mar 16 04:11:17 <shenson> I'm doing the slug as an audio player
Mar 16 04:13:31 <shenson> mpd is importing the music a lot slower than it did on my dual core server 
Mar 16 04:13:32 <shenson> haha
Mar 16 04:13:52 <mwester> Well, did you at least "de-underclock" the poor little NSLU2?
Mar 16 04:16:15 <shenson> I was going to wait to see how mpd performed before I tried that
Mar 16 04:16:17 <shenson> how hard is it?
Mar 16 04:17:57 <mwester> Probably the easiest hardware mod you'll ever do.  The hardest part is getting the case open.
Mar 16 04:18:22 <mwester> The next hardest part is selecting which of the dozen techniques to use.
Mar 16 04:18:49 <mwester> It will invalidate your warantee, though. :D
Mar 16 04:20:06 <shenson> yeah, I played an electrical engineer for my senior design project in college, I don't know that I want to go back to that
Mar 16 04:20:17 * shenson crosses his fingers that mpd doesn't need the extra power
Mar 16 11:25:40 <PPmarcel> hello
Mar 16 11:25:52 <asa> hi
Mar 16 11:46:34 <rio> did any of you try to install python Convert::bencode on a slug?
Mar 16 11:47:01 <rio> for me it causes a cpan update which is already running an hour :/
Mar 16 11:47:17 <rio> s/python/perl/
Mar 16 11:47:32 <rio> heh, looks like i like python more :P
Mar 16 12:12:00 <ido-> bencode ?
Mar 16 12:12:06 <ido-> isn't that bittorrents encoding ?
Mar 16 14:02:11 <NSLU2-IRC> Hi, I just had to refalsh my old nslu2 
Mar 16 14:02:39 <NSLU2-IRC> one question, how do I access the stuff on my "old" nslu2 disks 
Mar 16 14:02:53 <NSLU2-IRC> the was not atached when I reflashed it
Mar 16 14:03:06 <NSLU2-IRC> is there a way to assess the files on them?
Mar 16 14:04:52 <fatboy> f
Mar 16 14:05:26 <fatb0ys> I dont remember my yahoo id (I will check it up)
Mar 16 14:18:34 <svensson> hmm cant change to my yahoo id
Mar 16 14:21:17 <svenssonfredrik> any one knows how I can access my disks (formated on the nslu2) I want them back on my new flashed nslu2 , not read them in windows or something
Mar 16 14:21:25 <svenssonfredrik> is that possible?
Mar 16 14:32:02 <svenssonfredrik> no one knows?
Mar 16 14:32:03 <svenssonfredrik> plz
Mar 16 16:11:36 <janne-5011> svenssonfredrik ssh or telnet in and type mount and see of you see the disk there. sometimes the disk dont show up at webinterface but if you go to adminstration/disk they show up. 
Mar 16 16:11:48 <slack---line> Hi, I'm trying to get sluos-4.8 to boot from an external HD where I've installed gentoo (based on http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Linksys_NSLU2), and get activity on the drive when rebooting, but the Ready/Status light just flashes amber and never seems to complete the boot.  Any tips on how to work out whats going wrong on the install since I can't get into it and run dmesg and stuff?
Mar 16 16:11:51 <janne-5011> wrong type df
Mar 16 16:13:48 <slack---line> I guess if I don't turn the USB drive off then the log files in /var/log will be from the failed boot, so can look at those?
Mar 16 16:17:59 <slack---line> hmm, seems udhcpd doesn't start as the network interface can't be found, even though I copied the modules from a slugos boot to the gentoo install, at least I've got somewhere to start troubleshooting.
Mar 16 16:43:44 <shenson> how do I get an ipkg recompiled with different options?  I'd like mpd to be recompiled against the integer vorbis implementation?  or how do I do it myself?
Mar 16 16:56:48 <Nimmit> I have opened samba up to the internet for a friend of mine ... one question ... I see someone got connected to the IPC$ share with the account guest ... are they able to do anything with this?
Mar 16 17:03:21 <mwester> Nimmit:  YIKES!
Mar 16 17:03:40 <Nimmit> :/
Mar 16 17:04:10 <mwester> Nimmit:  The SMB protocol is not something one opens to the internet...
Mar 16 17:04:26 <mwester> (via windows directly or via Samba!)
Mar 16 17:05:02 <mwester> You should consider the possibility that any data on that share has been read by someone on the internet at this point.
Mar 16 17:05:17 <Nimmit> I have all the shares password protected
Mar 16 17:05:18 <mwester> I hope you have no passwords, or keys on that share...
Mar 16 17:05:30 <mwester> Passwords are easily broken, and smb does not encrypt
Mar 16 17:06:08 <Nimmit> yes, but can they access anything over IPC$
Mar 16 17:06:39 <asa> in my opinion it's an absolute NO GO to open samba shares to the internet
Mar 16 17:07:40 <asa> use ftp or http to share files with extern computers
Mar 16 17:07:41 <barnseenio> Oh you spoilsports.
Mar 16 17:07:43 <Nimmit> all the shares, except my friends, are limited to local ips
Mar 16 17:09:03 <Nimmit> mwester?
Mar 16 17:10:23 <mwester> asa is right - smb has no place on the internet, just as nfs has no place on the internet.
Mar 16 17:10:45 <mwester> And yes, they can get stuff via guest based on the default Unslung config.
Mar 16 17:10:54 <Nimmit> yea, but I just want to know if they had any access to anything over IPC$
Mar 16 17:11:01 <Nimmit> I use slugos
Mar 16 17:11:20 <Nimmit> guest is globally forbidden
Mar 16 17:11:30 <mwester> IPC$ is, IIRC, like the directory service.  So yes, from that they get a list of the valid shares available.
Mar 16 17:13:00 <Nimmit> but they still would've only been able to see them
Mar 16 17:13:14 <Nimmit> and all the shares except my friends are limited to internal ips
Mar 16 17:13:32 <Nimmit> his share is just a place we more easily trade files with each other
Mar 16 17:15:03 <Nimmit> I don't think that matters either
Mar 16 17:15:09 <Nimmit> since all shares are not browseable
Mar 16 17:18:34 <asa> why don't you use ftp?
Mar 16 17:19:01 <Nimmit> this is just easier
Mar 16 17:19:14 <asa> ?
Mar 16 17:19:30 <Nimmit> the only share they should be able to access anyways ... even if they do figure out the passwords
Mar 16 17:19:33 <asa> easier but more dangerous
Mar 16 17:19:34 <Nimmit> is my friends
Mar 16 17:19:37 <Nimmit> which has nothing in it
Mar 16 17:19:48 <Nimmit> that is important
Mar 16 17:19:49 <mwester> Nimmit:  you are the classic Internet victim -- you have argued to convince yourself that what you do is safe.  Nobody can convince you otherwise.
Mar 16 17:19:52 <mwester> :p
Mar 16 17:20:05 <Nimmit> I know its risky
Mar 16 17:20:18 <Nimmit> but someone could break into ftp also
Mar 16 17:20:20 <asa> so why you do this?
Mar 16 17:20:38 <asa> not so easy as in samba or nfs
Mar 16 17:26:30 <slack---line> besides, as its already happened it too late
Mar 16 17:35:18 <shenson> Nimmit, you should look into webdavs, IE can connect to them and use them as regular folders, I think they are called web folders or web shares or something like that
Mar 16 17:59:31 <asa> so, enough serverworks for today
Mar 16 17:59:47 <asa> going to El Alamein for a wile :)
Mar 16 17:59:53 <asa> bye@all
Mar 16 18:00:09 <abliss> hi all, looking for advice on a serial-port problem.
Mar 16 18:00:55 <abliss> i soldered a 4-pin header onto the slug. using a USB-to-TTL-serial adapter on the host.  Running minicom on host, getty on slug.  Receiving works great -- I get a login prompt.  But sending seems to be zero -- cat /dev/ttyS0 on the device gets nothing no matter what i do.
Mar 16 18:01:50 <abliss> have triple-checked that TXD, RXD, and GND are connected through ... do I need to match the 3.3V between the slug and the adapter?
Mar 16 18:02:35 <mwester> generally not; your USB adaptor should take the necessary power from the host.
Mar 16 18:03:30 <mwester> I'm not sure why you are running a getty or doing a cat -- what firmware are you running?
Mar 16 18:05:38 <abliss> SlugOS/BE
Mar 16 18:05:54 <abliss> getty was already being run on ttyS0 ...
Mar 16 18:06:01 <abliss> i also get kernel messages during boot, just fine
Mar 16 18:06:58 <abliss> i also get RedBoot messages, but can't cancel the boot, which confirms my suspicion that bytes aren't getting from host to slug
Mar 16 18:07:14 <mwester> Ok.  Should just work without any setting changes at all on SlugOS.  Check your term emulator to make sure that it has correct parity and flow control settings?
Mar 16 18:07:29 <abliss> 115200 8N1, right?
Mar 16 18:07:43 <mwester> Right.  With no HW or xon/xoff flow control at all.
Mar 16 18:08:07 <abliss> yep, hardware and software flow control off
Mar 16 18:08:35 <mwester> Then remove the plug from the head, and jumper the TX and RX on the serial adaptor.  Check to see if you get character echo.
Mar 16 18:08:57 <mwester> If you do, then the fault is on the slug (check for a solder short on the header)
Mar 16 18:09:09 <mwester> If you do not, then the cabling or the serial adaptor is suspect.
Mar 16 18:09:14 <abliss> yep, i get echo
Mar 16 18:09:37 <mwester> Ok, then check the solder joint for a possible short.
Mar 16 18:14:11 <abliss> seems to be okay... i just noticed though that with TX/RX jumpered, i get character echo only as long as i'm not plugged into the slug.  is that normal?
Mar 16 18:16:36 <mwester> Shorting TX and RX on the slug and TX and RX on the adaptor is probably about as bad a short as you can subject the chips on either end to handle.
Mar 16 18:16:46 <mwester> Not a good thing at all...
Mar 16 18:17:31 <mwester> Check your wiring -- are you sure you have identified the correct pin for the Slug's RX?
Mar 16 18:18:02 <mwester> Also touch up the solder joint -- solder bridges can be very hard to see, esp. if they are on the other side of the board beneath the header.
Mar 16 18:22:27 <shenson> where do I get the source package for mpd?  I'd like to build the version from openwrt, but I can't find the source for it
Mar 16 18:23:14 <treitmayr> http://www.musicpd.org/files.shtml
Mar 16 18:23:59 <shenson> what about the bitbake files for it?
Mar 16 18:24:18 <shenson> http://ipkgfind.nslu2-linux.org/details.phtml?package=mpd&official=&format=
Mar 16 18:24:30 <shenson> I want to build 0.13 on slugos/be
Mar 16 18:31:25 <abliss> mwester: is there somewhere else on the board I can pick up the slug's RXD? 
Mar 16 18:33:30 <mwester> Dunno; you'll have to check.  The wiki has photos of the bare board somewhere.
Mar 16 18:43:41 <abliss> hm, i retouched the joint and now host->slug seems to work fine, but slug->host is all garbled :)
Mar 16 18:47:58 <abliss> (actually about half-garbled, looks like 1 bit/character or so is wrong
Mar 16 18:57:07 <abliss> w00t, got it working fine now.  thanks mwester.
Mar 16 19:03:59 <ido-> 'lo
Mar 16 19:06:28 <shenson> how often does sluos/be get updated?  its looking for fakeroot but its no longer on the debian mirrors
Mar 16 19:06:49 <mwester> Whenever problems like that are reported :)
Mar 16 19:07:01 <mwester> Which SlugOS release are you trying to build?
Mar 16 19:09:41 <shenson> slugos/be 4.8 beta
Mar 16 19:09:58 <shenson> its looking for fakeroot 1.8.3 but its been removed from the debian mirror system
Mar 16 19:10:20 <shenson> I'm trying to understand this ipkg/bitbake stuff and it really seems overly complex and too magical
Mar 16 19:10:44 <mwester> You'll probably have to download it from somewhere else, and just place it in the "downloads" directory manually.  Create the <filename>.md5 file yourself, too.
Mar 16 19:11:16 <mwester> shenson:  bitbake and oe build entire distributions, including toolchains from scratch.  It *is* a bit of black magic.
Mar 16 19:11:39 <mwester> Are you trying to build for a specific reason, or just experimenting?
Mar 16 19:12:04 <shenson> I'd like to get mpd 0.13 with tremor support on my slug
Mar 16 19:12:19 <shenson> so far its been an epic fail
Mar 16 19:12:34 <mwester> Where did you get the binary from - optware, or the native feeds?
Mar 16 19:14:00 <shenson> well I tried building from source, but libtool/aclocal/automake seems broken
Mar 16 19:14:20 <mwester> building on the slug itself?
Mar 16 19:14:24 <shenson> now I'm trying to get a cross environment going, but it is failing on fakeroot, got that solved so its going now
Mar 16 19:14:26 <shenson> yes
Mar 16 19:14:41 <shenson> I also can't find the bitbake files for mpd anyway
Mar 16 19:14:46 <mwester> Since those tools come from the cross env, and match those, they should work...
Mar 16 19:15:41 <shenson> it seems someone has got mpd 0.13 for openwrt, but I can't see how I'm supposed to get the source/bitbake files so I can recompile on slugos/be
Mar 16 19:16:10 <mwester> openembedded/packages/musicpd/mpd-alsa_0.11.5.bb
Mar 16 19:16:29 <mwester> That's the bitbake mpd recipe.
Mar 16 19:17:20 <shenson> ahh, I was looking at oe/packages/mpd
Mar 16 19:17:24 <shenson> or looking for
Mar 16 19:20:40 <mwester> I'd suggest that you simply build "head" - the most recent version in OE.  That's up-to-date (including a newer fakeroot).
Mar 16 19:21:25 <ido-> ugh.
Mar 16 19:21:36 <ido-> are you runing SLUG LE or BE ?
Mar 16 19:22:01 <shenson> BE
Mar 16 19:22:26 <ido-> arg
Mar 16 19:22:39 <shenson> should I be running something else?
Mar 16 19:23:41 <ido-> looking for one with LE so he can compile me something
Mar 16 19:25:07 <shenson> ahh, nope, looks like I'll have a BE env in a couple minutes here
Mar 16 19:25:32 <ido-> how'd you set it up ?
Mar 16 19:25:42 <ido-> i tried, didnt go well
Mar 16 19:26:02 <shenson> following the directions and tenacity 
Mar 16 19:26:41 <ido-> directions where ?
Mar 16 19:26:50 <shenson> http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/OpenSlug/BuildingTheTarball
Mar 16 19:26:52 <shenson> thats for BE
Mar 16 19:28:15 <mwester> Same process for LE, just substitute.
Mar 16 19:28:29 <ido-> i think its forboth pretty much
Mar 16 19:28:40 <shenson> it looks like LE is depricated?  is that right?
Mar 16 19:29:42 <mwester> nope, not at all.
Mar 16 19:29:59 <ido-> whait
Mar 16 19:30:07 <ido-> it that for building the firmware from tarball ?
Mar 16 19:30:16 <mwester> Something referred to as "debianslug" is history, but SlugOS/LE and SlugOS/BE are both current and viable.
Mar 16 19:30:35 <mwester> I even understand that recently optware became available in LE for SlugOS.
Mar 16 19:30:58 <ido-> indeed it has
Mar 16 19:31:34 <ido-> how do i disconnect a drive ?
Mar 16 19:31:36 <ido-> just unmount it
Mar 16 19:31:39 <ido-> and thats it
Mar 16 19:31:41 <ido-> ?
Mar 16 19:33:10 <mwester> pretty much.  and if it had swap space on it, disable that as well.
Mar 16 19:58:05 <PPmarcel> good evening
Mar 16 19:58:28 <PPmarcel> mwester: i had to rebuild my sysconf, in order to fix all my problems. The slug works again now :)
Mar 16 20:01:12 <pear> whenever i try to install PHP for Debian, I get this error msg and the installation fails: E: Failed to fetch http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/pool/main/a/apache2/apache2.2-common_2.2.3-4+etch3_arm.deb: 404 Not Found
Mar 16 20:01:19 <pear> does anyone know why?
Mar 16 20:02:12 <PPmarcel> of course: this fole don't exists anymore
Mar 16 20:02:15 <PPmarcel> file*
Mar 16 20:02:45 <shenson> pear, apt-get update
Mar 16 20:03:26 <PPmarcel> http://ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/pool/main/a/apache2/apache2.2-common_2.2.3-4+etch4_arm.deb
Mar 16 20:03:32 <PPmarcel> it's etch4 now
Mar 16 20:03:54 <PPmarcel> you can repport this mistake to debian now :)
Mar 16 20:04:28 <shenson> his cache is out of date, running apt-get update will refresh the cache
Mar 16 20:04:40 <PPmarcel> idd
Mar 16 20:04:44 <pear> PPmarcel: aahh, ok. I'm trying shenson's "apt-get update"
Mar 16 20:04:51 <pear> hopefully that will fix :)
Mar 16 20:07:54 <pear> ok, i will try to reinstall. does someone know if it is best to use PHP4 or PHP5 (with apache 2.2) ??
Mar 16 20:08:13 <PPmarcel> maybe php5
Mar 16 20:08:38 <shenson> pear, it depends on your application 
Mar 16 20:08:56 <shenson> are you writing something or just using an app someone else made?
Mar 16 20:10:32 <pear> shenson: I mainly want to use it with http://www.snewscms.com/ right now. it says it requites 4.3 or higher...
Mar 16 20:10:40 <pear> so I guess PHP5 would be good
Mar 16 20:11:29 <shenson> I think php4 is a better bet but php5 will work ussually
Mar 16 20:12:40 <pear> yes, you're probably right. i guess it was developed with 4.3. i'll try it with PHP4 first to start with :)
Mar 16 20:13:44 <pear> y
Mar 16 20:13:58 <pear> wrong window :o
Mar 16 20:15:39 <pear> well the apt-get update has enbled me to install PHP. so thanks for the tip!
Mar 16 20:28:22 <ido-> hrm
Mar 16 20:28:29 <ido-> how do i setup samba permissions ?
Mar 16 20:29:15 <shenson> is there a way to make bitbake forget about its cache and rebuild everything?
Mar 16 20:29:24 <ido-> make clean ?
Mar 16 20:29:26 <PPmarcel> ido-: in you /etc/samba/smb.conf
Mar 16 20:29:42 <ido-> yeah
Mar 16 20:29:42 <mwester> http://us4.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/
Mar 16 20:29:58 <ido-> but the directories, what permission should they be ?
Mar 16 20:30:03 <mwester> shenson:  Delete the "tmp" directory and contents.
Mar 16 20:30:05 <ido-> the ones that i want to share
Mar 16 20:30:07 <PPmarcel> ido-: you can use lines like "read only = yes/no", "browsable = yes/no"
Mar 16 20:30:29 <shenson> mwester, won't that kill my cross compile environment?
Mar 16 20:30:37 <shenson> I guess everything is a bit much, I want it to rebuild mpd
Mar 16 20:30:39 <mwester> Yep
Mar 16 20:30:41 <PPmarcel> ido-: at least reading
Mar 16 20:30:57 <ido-> what user
Mar 16 20:31:03 <ido->  /group
Mar 16 20:31:08 <PPmarcel> ido-: others
Mar 16 20:31:17 <PPmarcel> hum, maybe root is ok
Mar 16 20:31:23 <mwester> shenson: if you are doing "bitbake <packagename>" then just add "-c rebuild" to the end, I think.
Mar 16 20:31:26 <PPmarcel> samba is launched by root finally
Mar 16 20:31:39 <PPmarcel> ido-: try and test
Mar 16 20:32:32 <ido-> so set all of them to root ?
Mar 16 20:32:44 <ido-> and samba itself will control the ACL per user ?
Mar 16 20:34:30 <PPmarcel> i think yes
Mar 16 20:34:32 <ido-> i'm using just about the same config from my unslung
Mar 16 20:34:41 <ido-> and the users aren't working properly
Mar 16 20:34:43 <PPmarcel> but you needn't to set your files as root owner or group
Mar 16 20:34:53 <PPmarcel> root can read what he want, so don't matter
Mar 16 20:34:54 <ido-> although i've added the users adn smbpasswd
Mar 16 20:46:28 <shenson> sweet success!! finally my slug can play music
Mar 16 20:50:40 <mwester> shenson:  can you send info on what you did, specifically the bitbake recipe changes, to the mailing list.  That way it might even end up in the feeds.
Mar 16 20:51:05 <shenson> mwester, what mailing list?
Mar 16 20:51:17 <mwester> nslu2-linux would be the right one.
Mar 16 20:51:24 <shenson> ok
Mar 16 20:51:43 <shenson> I'm not sure that my stuff is going to be correct though, I had to use -force-depends to get the ipkg to install
Mar 16 20:52:01 <mwester> Well, it's probably a better start than nothing!
Mar 16 20:52:33 <shenson> ok
Mar 16 20:54:27 <shenson> um, I don't have a yahoo account and I don't really feel the need to make one, is there an address that I can just email and it gets to the right place?
Mar 16 21:05:36 <ido-> hrn
Mar 16 21:05:37 <ido-> weird
Mar 16 21:05:44 <ido-> i can login with my user with smbclient
Mar 16 21:05:47 <ido-> but not from xp
Mar 16 21:05:56 <ido-> on the unslung, from xp worked too
Mar 16 21:07:53 <PPmarcel> i don't understand: does is works with xp or not?
Mar 16 21:10:30 <ido-> worked with unslung
Mar 16 21:10:36 <ido-> same config doesnt work with slugOS
Mar 16 21:11:23 <PPmarcel> have you used smbpassword, for creating your users?
Mar 16 21:11:28 <ido-> yep
Mar 16 21:11:43 <ido-> when i login with smbclient to localhost it works too
Mar 16 21:14:08 <PPmarcel> and xp stay blocked on login/password?
Mar 16 21:14:16 <ido-> yeah
Mar 16 21:14:43 <ido-> brb
Mar 16 21:14:45 <ido-> oh
Mar 16 21:14:51 <ido-> actually i'm just rebooting my slug
Mar 16 21:18:46 <shenson> ahh samba, makeing linux like windows in every way
Mar 16 21:20:50 <ido-> hrm.
Mar 16 21:21:04 <ido-> unless i make it 'guest ok = yes' it wont login from windows
Mar 16 21:29:26 <PPmarcel> in your [global], try security = share
Mar 16 21:32:37 <ido-> hmm
Mar 16 21:32:47 <ido-> i dont want share based sec
Mar 16 21:42:08 <ido-> hrm
Mar 16 21:42:09 <ido-> damnit
Mar 17 00:01:17 <bluequijote> I have a problem with amule
Mar 17 00:01:34 <bluequijote> A fatal error has occurred and aMule has crashed
Mar 17 00:01:47 <bluequijote> Segmentation fault
Mar 17 00:02:49 <bluequijote> I don't know what to do... some sugestion?
Mar 17 00:31:32 <abliss> anybody know the simplest way to get cross-compiling to a NSLU2 from a debian box?
Mar 17 00:31:50 <abliss> the ftp server mentioned on the wiki which supposedly hosts cross-compiling .debs, is unreachable
Mar 17 00:44:46 <pear> why is apache so damn difficult to get running with PHP!? grrrr!
Mar 17 00:46:29 <pear> i think i will just return to windlows and IIS
Mar 17 00:55:52 <pear> ill give it one last go first. and if no, THAT'S IT!!
Mar 17 00:56:04 <pear> i will sell my nslu
Mar 17 01:31:42 <rexthedog> hi!
Mar 17 01:32:09 <rexthedog> anyone know how its possible to change the default webserver port with unslung ?
Mar 17 01:46:43 <Nimmit> you mean the linksys one?
Mar 17 01:46:55 <Nimmit> that can be done on one of the settings pages
Mar 17 02:22:34 <rexthedog> hey
Mar 17 02:22:40 <rexthedog> which ftp server is best for unslung?
Mar 17 02:27:52 <mwester> The built-in one.
Mar 17 02:37:56 <rexthedog> hmm
Mar 17 02:38:15 <rexthedog> how do i add new users the ftp built in ftp server?
Mar 17 02:38:37 <rexthedog> id prefer doing it by shell (adduser) but the ftp server doesnt seem to accept users added from the shell
Mar 17 02:44:43 <mwester> You'll probably have to edit the config file manually.  It's an older version of "bftpd" -- google it to find the documentation.
Mar 17 02:50:24 <rexthedog> where does the webinterface store its user-files?
Mar 17 02:51:22 <mwester> all over.
Mar 17 02:51:46 <rexthedog> hmm
Mar 17 02:51:50 <mwester> The linksys firmware places user information in a bunch of files - several copies of the /etc/passwd file to begin with.
Mar 17 02:52:10 <mwester> The admin id also gets it's password encrypted and stuffed into a file for the web server to use.
Mar 17 02:52:12 <rexthedog> cause all i need to do really is upload one jpg that will be diplayed on a webpage
Mar 17 02:52:33 <mwester> Ids also end up associated with shares, and user/group information will end up in various samba config files.
Mar 17 02:52:34 <rexthedog> i mean i have an ip-camera that will login by ftp to my nslu2 and upload an image that will be displayed on a webpage
Mar 17 02:52:45 <rexthedog> so i guess it might be easier installing a simple ftpd
Mar 17 02:53:02 <mwester> This is why it is considered a bad idea to use anything other than the linksys GUI to add users to Unlung...
Mar 17 02:53:14 <mwester> It's never easy to install an ftpd
Mar 17 02:53:37 <mwester> You will be risking less if you just figure out how to do what you need with the built-in ftpd
Mar 17 02:53:51 <rexthedog> is there a way to change the homedir of a user added in the linksys interface?
Mar 17 02:54:07 <mwester> I cannot count how many people have come here and asked how to recover their slugs after they attempted the install of vsftpd or proftpd.
Mar 17 02:54:34 <mwester> Yes, you can edit the /etc/passwd file once the user is created.
Mar 17 02:54:59 <rexthedog> wont it be written over when i reboot?
Mar 17 02:57:04 <mwester> Perhaps.  Follow the wiki instructions on changing passwords manually to find where all the copies of the passwd file might be, and adjust them all.
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