Wuala

Wuala is an application developed by Lacie. It is a solution to offer some online storage in the "cloud"

It allows automatic backup of your data and synchronisation between PCs as well as time keep track or "version" of you file (you can go back in time)

It is a Java application and because of that can more or less run on every computer.

On their website they only have a package for Ubuntu but there is a package for all the other.

To install it you need several packages

For Fedora 12 you will need to install: java-1.6.0-openjdk-1, java-1.6.0-openjdk-plugin-1, fuse-libs, fuse, xdg-utils

If you don't need the full system integration you don't need fuse-libs, fuse, xdg-utils but you will loose having a virtual drive of your online data on the desktop

1. Installation of dependencies

yum install java-1.6.0-openjdk java-1.6.0-openjdk-plugin-1 fuse-libs fuse xdg-utils

2. Download the latest version of wuala

wget http://www.wuala.com/files/wuala.tar.gz

3. Untar it as root in /usr/local (This will create a directory wuala)

cd /usr/local
tar xvfz wuala.tar.gz

4. Manually start the program (make sure you have an account with them first)

/usr/local/wuala/wuala  -basepath /usr/local/wuala login YourUserName YourPassword

if all goes well you have started the program successfully and can test it

/usr/local/wuala --help
/usr/local/wuala/wuala showStatus   -> will tell you if you are online
/usr/local/wuala/wuala showSettings -> will show your settings

5. Start Wuala as a service

I found a little init.d script that sort of work but it is not perfect. For example I can't seem to make it work with service so that it starts at bootup or show that status is started.

So if someone can fix it it would be great. Copy the code below in file called wuala in /etc/init.d and make it executable

 
 #!/bin/sh
 # chkconfig: 235 99 10
 # description: Start or stop the Wuala server
 # 
 ### BEGIN INIT INFO
 # Provides: wuala
 # Required-Start: $network $syslog
 # Required-Stop: $network
 # Default-Start: 2 3 5
 # Default-Stop: 0 1 6
 # Description: Start or stop the Wuala server
 ### END INIT INFO
 # Source function library.
 . /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions 
 WUALA_USER="YourUserName"
 WUALA_PASS="YourPassword"
 WUALA_PATH="/usr/local/wuala"
 #start=/etc/webmin/start
 #stop=/etc/webmin/stop
 lockfile=/var/lock/subsys/wuala
 #confFile=/etc/webmin/miniserv.conf
 pidFile=/var/wuala/wuala.pid
 name='Wuala'
 case "$1" in
 'start')
 	su - root -c "$WUALA_PATH/wuala -basepath $WUALA_PATH login $WUALA_USER $WUALA_PASS &" & >/dev/null 2>&1 </dev/null
	RETVAL=$?
	if [ "$RETVAL" = "0" ]; then
		touch $lockfile >/dev/null 2>&1
	fi
	;;
 'stop')
	su - root -c "$WUALA_PATH/wuala -basepath $WUALA_PATH logout &" &
	RETVAL=$?
	if [ "$RETVAL" = "0" ]; then
		rm -f $lockfile
	fi
	pidfile=$pidFile
	rm -f $pidfile
	;;
 'status')
	pidfile=$pidFile
	if [ -s $pidfile ]; then
		pid=`cat $pidfile`
		kill -0 $pid >/dev/null 2>&1
		if [ "$?" = "0" ]; then
			echo "$name (pid $pid) is running"
			RETVAL=0
		else
			echo "$name is stopped"
			RETVAL=1
		fi
	else
		echo "$name is stopped"
		RETVAL=1
	fi
	;;
 'restart')
 	$stop ; $start 
	RETVAL=$?
	;;
 *)
	echo "Usage: $0 { start | stop | status | restart }"
	RETVAL=1
	;;
 esac
 exit $RETVAL