HOW-TO: owncloud client

[Osiris]

How to install owncloud client in a freenas 10.3 jail
Actually : FreeBSD owncloud_client 10.3-STABLE FreeBSD 10.3-STABLE #0 r295946+0ea9076(9.10-STABLE): Mon Oct 3 06:51:23 UTC 2016

• Set up a standard jail via the freenas gui (here named owncloud_client)
  
  
• shell into it
  jexec -u root owncloud_client csh
  
  
• install package owncloudclient.
  You could compile it from source, using port /usr/ports/deskutils/owncloudclient/, but this is an enormous process due to tons of dependencies.
  Not kidding - took a full day! - so witched to the pkg.
  pkg install owncloudclient-2.2.4
  You might need to pkg update first.
  Version might change in the meantime, so do pkg search owncloudclient to get the latest package.
  
  
• Then (or done before), setup a user on your owncloud server.
  In my example
  user: share
  password: sharepass
  server: http://cloud-server.local
  local share in the jail: /mnt/share
  
  
• Preparation for a cron script ...
  I've used bash so install bash first, if you want to copy mine
  pkg install bash
  Create a symlink (not necessary if you change it in the script, but I'm staying linux compliant)
  ln -s /usr/local/bin/bash /bin/bash
  
  
• Create a cron entry using crontab -e in the jail. This works since Freenas v9.10 (I think. Before I had to create cronjobs on the host).
  
  Code:

  * * * * * /mnt/owncloud_share.sh

  
  
  
• The cron script that runs every minute, as configured above.
  I can't take all the credit, but made proper adaptations for freebsd.
  vi /mnt/owncloud_share.sh
  
  Code:

  #!/bin/bash
  SCRIPTNAME=`basename $0`
  PIDFILE=/tmp/${SCRIPTNAME}.pid
  
  if [ -f ${PIDFILE} ]; then
  	OLDPID=`cat ${PIDFILE}`
  	if [ "$OLDPID" == "" ]; then
  		OLDPID="no_old_pid"
  	fi
  	RESULT=`ps auxww | grep ${OLDPID} | grep ${SCRIPTNAME}`
  	if [ -n "${RESULT}" ]; then
  		echo "Script already running! Exiting"
  		exit 255
  	fi
  
  fi
  
  #grab pid of this process and update the pid file with it
  PID=`ps auxww | grep ${SCRIPTNAME} | head -n1 |  awk ' {print $2;} '`
  echo ${PID} > ${PIDFILE}
  
  /usr/local/bin/owncloudcmd --trust --silent --non-interactive --user share --password sharepass /mnt/share http://cloud-server.local
  
  if [ -f ${PIDFILE} ]; then
  	rm -f ${PIDFILE}
  fi

 

[deltapi]

This guide was great. It was straightforward and did everything I needed. Thank you very much!

There were a couple things I did differently, it has been a couple years..!
for anyone else following along now, my notes - running 11.3u3.1

• had to identify the jail by the jail ID number as it would not accept the ascii name of my jail, eg:
  Code:

  jexec -u root 2 csh

• owncloud was at 2.6 at the time of my install
• I changed my crontab to start off with */5 so that it would run every 5 minutes instead of every minute as I don't need instant sync

 

[danb35]

had to identify the jail by the jail ID number as it would not accept the ascii name of my jail

A lot has changed in three years, one thing being that the default jail manager is now iocage, which does things a little differently. The better command would be iocage console owncloud_client.

owncloud was at 2.6 at the time of my install

I have no idea why this guide specifies a version number in the pkg install command, as I can't think of any reason to do it. Just pkg install owncloudclient, as long as that's still the package name, will work and will get the latest version.