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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?

How do you start sabnzbdplus?

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

Option 2

and I closed down the connection! dumb

makem wrote: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

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.

Just run this, and you can safely log off without shutting sabnzb down. Alternatively you can run this and it will start up automatically everyting your RPI boots up. and edit the user variable to this Ctrl-O and Ctrl-X to save and exit... Voila, the sabnzb starts on boot...