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 others.
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
Install
1. Installation of dependencies
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yum install java-1.6.0-openjdk java-1.6.0-openjdk-plugin-1 fuse-libs fuse xdg-utils
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2. Download the latest version of wuala
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wget http://www.wuala.com/files/wuala.tar.gz
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3. Untar it as root in /usr/local (This will create a directory wuala)
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cd /usr/local tar xvfz wuala.tar.gz
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4. Manually start the program (make sure you have an account with them first)
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/usr/local/wuala/wuala -basepath /usr/local/wuala login YourUserName YourPassword
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if all goes well you have started the program successfully and can test it
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/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
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5. Start Wuala as a service
I found a little init.d script that sort of works but it is not perfect. For example I can't seem to make it work with service so that it starts at bootup or shows 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
References
There is a potential init script that might work here and another one here.