You can find the installation information here: https://www.seafile.com/en/help/drive_client_linux/
It can be used in both GUI and terminal environment.
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Hi Daniel,
for both @scheff and me, the SeaDrive Client only works for the actual first time we run it.
All successive runs fail with:
SeaDrive exited unexpectedly
And the console output is
fusermount: failed to chdir to /uni-mainz.de/homes/schlarbm: Permission denied
fusermount: failed to chdir to /uni-mainz.de/homes/schlarbm: Permission denied
(seadrive-gui:19057): Searpc-WARNING **: pipe client failed to connect to server: Connection refused
In seadrive-gui-log:
[10.04.2017 12:44:08] loaded 0 accounts
[10.04.2017 12:44:08] seadrive gui started
[10.04.2017 12:44:08] starting seadrive daemon: seadrive "-d" "/uni-mainz.de/homes/schlarbm/.seadrive/data" "-l" "/uni-mainz.de/homes/schlarbm/.seadrive/logs/seadrive.log" "-f" "/uni-mainz.de/homes/schlarbm/SeaDrive"
[10.04.2017 12:44:09] Seadrive daemon process exited normally with code 0
[10.04.2017 12:44:09] Exiting with error: SeaDrive exited unexpectedly
[10.04.2017 12:44:10] seadrive rpc is not ready after 0 retry, abort
[10.04.2017 12:44:10] Exiting with error: SeaDrive failed to initialize
[10.04.2017 12:44:12] seadrive rpc is not ready after 0 retry, abort
[10.04.2017 12:44:12] Exiting with error: SeaDrive failed to initialize
Could it be because our home directories are mounted via NFS (with Kerberos) - if that would be the case - is there a way to change the SeaDrive folder path?
Best regards,
Moritz
Hmmā¦ We havenāt thought about this situation. Weāll add this ability. At the moment perhaps you can try the cli way first? Itās not much different from the GUI way since almost all functions are in the drive.
When I start seadrive-gui from a shell where I set $HOME to a different path it seems to work fine and is restartable.
Could you maybe think about fusermounting the SeaDrive folder to /run/user/<uid>/?
At least, thatās where the Gnome desktop mounts remote file systems when using gvfs through the Nautilus file manager!
You can also use the env variable SEADRIVE_FUSE_OPTS to pass standard FUSE options to seadrive.
For example, if you set SEADRIVE_FUSE_OPTS=/tmp/seadrive then start seadrive-gui, itāll use /tmp/seadrive as mount point.
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Hi everyone,
can you help me find the Git repository for seadrive-daemon?
I can only find the seadrive-gui project on GitHub!
Best wishes,
Moritz
Hi,
The drive client is not open sourced at the moment.
Oh, thatās sad.
Are you planning on open sourcing it some time?
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We donāt have specific plan currently. Weāll leave it later.
Hi,
Seadrive is working flawlessly on my headless linux server. I do have a question though.
Does seadrive honour all the fuse options? in particular allow_other would be useful to me. If it does honour them how do I access them? I tried various spells around SEADRIVE_FUSE_OPTS without success.
Regards
John
Well, it seems Iām an idiot. use the -o option on the command line as per the hint in āseadrive -hā.
John
Is there a way to mount this using fstab?
Iām not sure whether it can be done with fstab. There is a discussion on stackoverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1554178/how-to-register-fuse-filesystem-type-with-mount8-and-fstab. But seadrive requires the ā-fā option (donāt run as daemon). I donāt know whether itās possible to set this option in fstab. Let me know if you make it work.
So you canāt run it without the -f?
in your bash script would this do it?
seadrive -c ~/seadrive.conf -f -d ~/data-dir ~/mounted-dir & disown
Regards
Yes the -f option is mandatory. Thatās due to some implementation limitation that we cannot go to daemon mode (which requires forking).
Hi Daniel,
Are there any plans on releasing the drive client for Fedora? Since itās not open-sourced, I cannot build it myself.
We are working on it already. Probably the Fedora client will be ready this month.
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Hi Daniel,
as Seafile Drive isnāt open source yet, would you mind releasing a Raspberry version?
Thanks,
Viktor