Sick-Beard & Notify My Android

Sometime in the past, I discovered Notify My Android while configuring CouchPotato. It’s essentially a Growl type application for Android phones. I eagerly ported the code from CouchPotato to Sick-Beard so I could get alerted when a new TV show downloaded.

Unfortunately, despite the support for this feature, it’s taken Midgetspy some time to accept my pull request. In the meantime, I’ve spun up a fork that is using the latest Sick-Beard code along with the Notify My Android update. If you itching for some NMA alerting, but don’t want to give up the latest cool Sick-Beard features, check out my repository.

Feel free to throw feedback here or over at Github.

BigCouch 0.4 and FreeBSD

With great excitement, Cloudant announced the release of BigCouch 0.4 yesterday. One of the exciting features for me is FreeBSD support. For a complete list of new features, click here for the changelog. I didn’t find any good sources for installation help in FreeBSD, so I thought I would throw something up. Here goes:

Let’s start with the dependencies:
# pkg_add -r gmake libtool help2man erlang-lite icu spidermonkey curl git
# rehash
We’re going to grab the latest from Github for our setup:

(The source is available as a package here)

# git clone git://github.com/cloudant/bigcouch.git
# cd bigcouch
If you have bash installed in your environment, you can skip this next step:

(there was a push that changed the configure script from requiring bash, but was changed back after some issues with Solaris)

# grep -rl '/bin/bash' * | xargs sed -i "" 's/bash/sh/g'
If you’d like to change what ip the single-node port (5986) listens on, run this command:

(this is used for some admin functions)

# sed -i '' 's/127.0.0.1/<Desired IP>/g' rel/overlay/etc/default.ini
Next, we need to create a directory were we will be installing BigCouch:
# mkdir /usr/local/bigcouch
We’ll finish up with a quick config change and then the standard make stuff:
# ./configure -p /usr/local/bigcouch
# make
# make install
If all goes well, you should be able to fire up BigCouch:
# /usr/local/bigcouch/bin/bigcouch

There currently isn’t a port for FreeBSD that I’ve been able to find aside from this dated one on Github. After some more testing, I’ll most likely end up getting a port put together so I can get this build out puppetized easier, but that’s another project for another day.

Goodbye OpenIndiana

I’ve reached the point where I am completely frustrated using OpenIndiana. As great of an OS it might be with it’s fantastic implementation of ZFS and all the other amazing components, it is a completely foreign OS. This wouldn’t be so bad if the documentation wasn’t so horrible.

When I return home, I’ll be spending some time setting up FreeBSD 9.0 and puppetizing my entire downloading system. At least I know how to use FreeBSD and if I don’t, the documentation is amazing!

Cookie Cleaning with Nginx

A few days ago, we discovered that there was some odd behavior with some traffic hitting our sites due to a cookie with a null name. It was causing some weirdness with our application and causing our alerting software to freak out. I was tasked with coming up with a solution to handling this. I dabble in the load balancing space and decided to solve this by stripping out the cookie in Nginx.

set $cookies $http_COOKIE;
if ($http_COOKIE ~* "(.*;)\s=deleted;(.*)") {
    set $cookies $1$2;
}
proxy_set_header cookie $cookies;

Installing SABnzbd, Sick-Beard & CouchPotato on OpenIndiana

I’ve been a Freebsd user for several years now and I’m quite comfortable on that platform. Recently, however, a guy I work with has spoken really highly of OpenIndiana and I decided to spin it up on a new server and see how it goes. So far, it’s been an uphill battle. Solaris is very different than what I’m use to. After a few hours, I was able to get the first couple apps running. I’m going to give a quick run down of what I did to get them running and configured.

Dependencies

GCC

One of the dependencies for SABnzbd requires a compiler.

# pfexec pkg install SUNWgcc

We also need a math header

# pfexec pkg install math/header-math

Unrar

# pfexec pkg install archiver/unrar

Par2

# wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/parchive/par2cmdline/0.4/par2cmdline-0.4.tar.gz
# gunzip < par2cmdline-0.4.tar.gz | tar xvf -
# cd par2cmdline-0.4/
# ./configure
# make
# pfexec make install
# pfexec mv /usr/local/bin/par* /usr/bin/

Cheetah

# wget http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/C/Cheetah/Cheetah-2.4.4.tar.gz#md5=853917116e731afbc8c8a43c37e6ddba
# gunzip < Cheetah-2.4.4.tar.gz  | tar xvf -
# cd Cheetah-2.4.4/
# pfexec python setup.py install

PyOpenSSL

# wget http://launchpad.net/pyopenssl/main/0.11/+download/pyOpenSSL-0.11.tar.gz
# gunzip < pyOpenSSL-0.11.tar.gz | tar xvf -
# cd pyOpenSSL-0.11
# pfexec python setup.py install

yEnc

# wget https://bitbucket.org/dual75/yenc/get/default.tar.gz
# gunzip default.tar.gz | tar xvf - 
# cd default/
# pfexec python setup.py install

SABnzbd / Sick-Beard / CouchPotato

Once you’ve got all the dependencies installed, it’s really simple to get the three apps fired up. I used git repositories for all my installs for simplicity sake.

# cd /usr
# pfexec git clone git://github.com/sabnzbd/sabnzbd.git
# pfexec git clone git://github.com/midgetspy/Sick-Beard.git sick-beard
# pfexec git clone git://github.com/RuudBurger/CouchPotato.git couchpotato

At this point, all you need to do is fire up each application and configure the settings.