Here is part one of my ZFSguru software install guides. I managed to set up SABnzbd, CouchPotato, and Sick Beard and they are all running great. I know that many people are requesting these programs be integrated but I thought that some help installing them manually might be good in the meantime and increase adoption. I'm still not sure what I'm doing as far running programs under different user accounts in FreeBSD so please note that everything will be running as root. I know that most people advise against this but outside access is blocked through my router and I have password protected access to SABnzbd, CouchPotato, and SickBeard. With that said it would be great if someone more knowledgeable could figure out a more secure way to do this and re-post the guides.

SABnzbd on ZFSguru (FreeBSD 8.2)

1. Set ssh password under Services ---> OpenSSH in ZFSguru

2. SSH in to your server with username: ssh , password: whatever you just set.

3.At the command prompt type

su

without quotes and hit enter to get root access.

4.Install unzip, a required package which is not installed with the port:

pkg_add -r ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-stable/archivers/unzip-6.0.tbz

5. Install SABnzbd FreeBSD port, which also installs all the rest of the required packages:

pkg_add -r ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-stable/news/sabnzbdplus-0.5.6.tbz

6. Edit rc.conf to enable SABnzbd to start automatically:

ee /etc/rc.conf

Add these two lines somewhere at the bottom-
#SABnzbd
sabnzbd_enable="YES"

Press esc key----->leave editor----> save to save changes

7. Run SABnzbd for the first time:

/usr/local/bin/SABnzbd.py

Use a browser to go to http://ip-of-your-ZFSguru-server:8080 and proceed with configuring SABnzbd, after configuring an ini file will be created at /root/.sabnzbd/sabnzbd.ini

8. Edit the SABnzbd rc.d config file

ee /usr/local/etc/rc.d/sabnzbd

Modify the following lines from this:
: ${sabnzbd_user:="_sabnzbd"}
: ${sabnzbd_group:="_sabnzbd"}
: ${sabnzbd_conf_dir:="/usr/local/sabnzbd"}

to this:
: ${sabnzbd_user:="root"}
: ${sabnzbd_group:="wheel"}
: ${sabnzbd_conf_dir:="/root/.sabnzbd"}

9. Add this line just below those you just modified, they will help SABnzbd find the unzip, unrar, and par2 packages:
PATH="/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin"

10. Remove the spaces from around the equal sign in this line under the sabnzbd_stop function:
if [ ${host} = "0.0.0.0" ]

Press esc key----->leave editor----> save to save changes

11. Test things out with the following commands for starting and stopping SABnzbd
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/sabnzbd start
/usr/local/etc/rc.d/sabnzbd stop

That's it! Just restart your ZFSguru server and SABnzbd should start automatically and you can access it at http://ip-of-your-ZFSguru-server:8080. Remember to change the Permissions for completed downloads setting in SABnzbd to 777 to allow you to access,move, and delete files in your download directories through a samba share. Up next will be the Sick Beard install guide.

Sadly I haven't had time to test ZFSguru, but if I understand correctly all the files are owned by the nfs user and the nfs group.
So my suggestion would be to make a sabnzbd user, add that to the nfs group and set the permissions in sab to 0770. Sab automatically removes the excecute permission from the files.

I'm not sure but you may want to look in /root/.sabnzbd probably an "Incomplete" directory in here or something. You may need to use the root command line, try:
ls -la /root/.sabnzbd

Directories that begin with . are considered hidden (configuration-like) directories on UNIX/Linux systems.

Note that if you run Root-on-ZFS on flash stick, you may want to change the configuration to only store on your harddrive instead and not on the flash disk.

Once i get extensions working i will look at this software package and try to make a nice configuration frontend that let's you configure and install all this using the web-interface instead. For now you have to tinker with it a bit, feel free to ask for more help.

To prevent the permission issue, you can try this:


: ${sabnzbd_user:="nfs"}
: ${sabnzbd_group:="nfs"}
: ${sabnzbd_conf_dir:="/zfsvolume/SABNZBD"}


Note: change "zfsvolume" to your ZFS pool.
Note: i would remove the configuration directory contents (.sabnzbd) if you change the user it runs on.

By using the nfs user, you would be able to browse and write to the SABNZBD directory using both Samba and NFS.

There's really nothing to it, just download the files, extract and run as the same user you're running SABnzbd as. When you've installed SABnzbd, you should have all the necessary dependencies.

I'm writing a new updated manual for installing SABnzbd, Sickbeard and Couchpotato. Its almost finished. The only thing I can't get to work is the startup/shutdown script for Couchpotato. I've tried to adjust the Sickbeard script to the needs of Couchpotato but this isn't working. Because I don't know anything about scripting I'm not able to write one myself.

Is there someone willing to share his start/shutdown script for Couchpotato?

Have a start/shutdown script

The guide is finished