FAQ

1. All torrents paused after transferring from another seedbox

First try to STOP torrent and then START torrent and also try to force recheck. If it doesn't work for you, remove all the torrents from the client (keeping the data), and import them all via ruTorrent 10 at a time.

2. How do I change theme from Oblivion to any other one?

Disable Oblivion on ruTorrent plugins tab and then use settings to change your theme.

3. My FTP client is giving me the error "530 Non-anonymous sessions must use encryption", what should I do?

The FTP server installed by this script is configured to encrypt your transfered files. Enable SSL (Auth TLS explicit) in your FTP client.

4. I have 60GB missing from my Kimsufi 2GS / I have 80GB missing from my Kimsufi 2G

If you execute a "sudo fdisk -l" on your 2GS box you'll see that there is only 477618176 bytes = 455GB. Look: http://puu.sh/1LZ2V.

When a company says that you have a 500GB HD actually you have a smaller one, because their calculation is 500 x 1000 x 1000 = 476GB and not 500 x 1024 x 1024 = 500GB.

You drive does not have 500GB, actually its 476GB (500000/1024/1024) and you have 10GB on the root (/) partition and some used in /home, according to drauka, that enlighted this for me on IRC, "you should also try reducing the system reserved block % that should get you back some space". And you also can try to partition it yourself, you can claim around 4GB from / that, but you would have to move your /var to /home so you don't get a disk full shortly.

5. How do I make ruTorrent show quotas correctly when they are not?

You might have different partitioning system. Edit file /var/www/rutorrent/conf/users//config.php and set $topDirectory to /, also check if $homeDirectory is pointing to the the user home dir.

6. How do I use my Server as a VPN Server?

1. Download and install an OpenVPN Client
2. Download VPN client configuration files from your server (http://<server ip address>/rutorrent/vpn.zip)
3. Open your VPN client and create a new connection using configuration files

7. VPN is not working, is there something I can do?

1. Check if all needed files are present in your vpn.zip: ca.crt ca.key client1.crt client1.csr client1.key .ovpn
2. If they are not, reinstall OpenVPN, and follow all steps carefully, executing:

installOpenVPN

3. Download VPN client files again and check if all files are present.

8. How do I upgrade or downgrade my rTorrent?

Use the internal command installRTorrent <rTorrent version>. Examples:

installRTorrent 0.9.2
installRTorrent 0.9.3

9. How do I remove password protection from apache document root (/var/www/)?

Open file /etc/apache2/sites-available/default and change from

  <Directory />
    Options FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride All
    AuthType Digest
    AuthName "documentroot"
    AuthDigestProvider file
    AuthUserFile /etc/apache2/htpasswd
    Require user <username>
  </Directory>

To

  <Directory />
    Options FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride All
    Require user <username>
  </Directory>

You wich basically removes all Auth lines from it. Note that you'll have to do this change twice in the same file, in sections <VirtualHost *:80> and <VirtualHost *:443>.

10. How do I update SABnzbd?

SABnzbd is not installed from a package. I had a lot of problems with the "package" version of it, so I decided to install from sources. Check the installation script file /etc/seedbox-from-scratch/installSABnzbd and use it to install a newer version.

11. Should I run this script as root?

Yes, you must.

This script is intended to be run on a new installed system and, assuming that you really are on a new system, there is no other user than root. If you are logged with a different user, at least an user creation command was executed in your system and you should check what else was or this script might not work and you might even loose access to your box.

12. When script asks me for a username can I type root?

No, you can't.

Script will create this user it asks for and you already have a root user, so things will break in the process. Also, root is not a normal user, you shouldn't being using it for common tasks, don't do that.

13. Do I loose root access to the box after running this script?

Yes and No.

You will not be able to SSH to your box using root account, but you can SSH to your box using your newly created user and then, to become root, run:

sudo su -

This is a security mesure and I will not change that.

14. I don't care about security, so how do I reenable root SSH access to the box after running this script?

Edit sshd_config file:

nano /etc/ssh/sshd_config

Change

PermitRootLogin no

To

PermitRootLogin yes

15. Can I upgrade packages on my new box?

Every time you hit "apt-get upgrade" or do a Webmin upgrade on this box you're risking breaking the hell out of it. Sabnzbd just looks like being installed using apt-get, but it is not, to make it work automatically it was installed manually. vsftpd has serious issues in its newer version, so I'm using an old one, installed from an old Ubuntu package.

So the answer is yes, you can, but you shouldn't, unless you have enough Linux knowlegde to fix all the problems it may cause.