Thanks anyway. Let me know if I’m doin it wrong.

I want something slightly different, but don’t quite have the script-fu - maybe you can help?

My ISP has a daytime bandwidth quota. I want to add commands to my readynas root crontab which start and stop my bittorrent daemon at particular times of day. If this sounds like a reasonable approach, can you help me figure out what some commands to start and stop bittorrent would be?

Thanks for any pointers,

Jonathan
tartley at the domain tartley dot com

nas-DF-7A-45:~# apt-get install pptpd
Reading Package Lists… Done
Building Dependency Tree… Done
pptpd is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 68 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up ppp (2.4.3-20050321 2sarge1) …
install: invalid group `dip’
dpkg: error processing ppp (–configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of pptpd:
pptpd depends on ppp (>= 2.4.3-20041231); however:
Package ppp is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing pptpd (–configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
ppp
pptpd
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
nas-DF-7A-45:~#

Help would be greatly appreciated

Just a thought…

Firstly I used your /etc/apt/sources.list (I think mine was horribly out of date).

Then I ran ‘apt-get update’ (and funnily enough this time I didn’t get loads of errors).

Finally I ran the install command again ‘apt-get install curl’

And hey presto, worked like a charm! I’ve now added my first torrent over ssh while at work, my god I love my little readynas, such a great piece of kit.

Thanks again JC! brilliant work

this is what i have.

bender:~# cat /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://www.readynas.com/packages readynas/

deb http://www.infrant.com/packages readynas/

deb http://archive.debian.org/debian-security sarge/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://archive.debian.org/debian-security sarge/updates main contrib non-free

deb http://archive.debian.org/backports.org sarge-backports main contrib non-free
deb-src http://archive.debian.org/backports.org sarge-backports main contrib non-free

deb http://archive.debian.org/debian sarge main contrib non-free
deb-src http://archive.debian.org/debian sarge main contrib non-free

do an ‘apt-get update’ then try to install curl again.

if after that it still doesn’t work, maybe there’s something wrong with your libc package.

I’d try ‘apt-get remove libc6-dev’
and after that, ‘apt-get install build-essentials’

if the problem isn’t in there, i’m out of ideas!, maybe reinstalling the apt addon? did you do an ‘apt-get upgrade’ by any chance? it’s known to break stuff.

I’m trying to get your first example working, but I’m falling down with getting Curl to install. I get the following error:

~/bin# apt-get install curl
Reading Package Lists… Done
Building Dependency Tree… Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
curl: Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.5-1) but 2.3.2.ds1-22sarge6.infrant1 is to be installed
Depends: libcurl3 (>= 7.15.5-1) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libidn11 (>= 0.5.18) but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages

I’m using Radiator 4.1.4 which is the latest, I’m guessing that might be the problem. Any Ideas?

thanks,
Inty