sabnzbd & raspberry pi

[makem]

I have an instance of sabnzbdplus running on a headless raspberry pi which is running 24/7.

I access the sabnzbdplus wirelessly from an instance of chrome on a laptop and start it downloading a file. I then close chrome and shut down the laptop, leaving sabnzbdplus running on the pi, or so I thought.

When I later accessed the pi I was unable to connect to sabnzbdplus using chrome. I found that sabnzbdplus had shutdown and no further data had been downloaded.

I was under the impression that sabnzbdplus was a separate entity and could be run headless. Is this not so, or do I need to set it up in some way to do so?

[sander]

How do you start sabnzbdplus?

Option 1: as a service
Option 2: login via ssh, type 'sabnzbdplus'
Option 3: ...

[makem]

Option 2

and I closed down the connection! dumb

[sander]

Option 2

Well, yes: as soon as you close the SSH session, sabnzbdplus will stop.

You can avoid that with nohup, but it's better to use Option 1: run sab as a service. See http://wiki.sabnzbd.org/install-ubuntu-repo "How to run as a service"

HTH

[makem]

Never heard of nohup but will investigate.

I don't often use ngs so have decided to use TightVNC or PuTTy to start an instance using LXTerminal (which I will NOT shutdown!), as and when needed.

As a service it would be wasting processor for the majority of time.

The pi is normally booted by a timer twice in 24 hours for automatic backup, shutting itself down when completed.

When I download I will just allow the pi to run 24 hours. The backups will look after themselves while the download is carried out.

Thanks for the prompt and informative replies.

[ThisSeatIsTaken]

Just run this, and you can safely log off without shutting sabnzb down.

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sabnzbdplus -d

Alternatively you can run this and it will start up automatically everyting your RPI boots up.

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sudo nano /etc/default/sabnzbdplus

and edit the user variable to this

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USER=pi

Ctrl-O and Ctrl-X to save and exit... Voila, the sabnzb starts on boot...