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#!/bin/sh | |
# Dropbox setup on a headless Ubuntu Server | |
# Script written by Jesse B. Hannah (http://jbhannah.net) <jesse@jbhannah.net> | |
# Based on http://wiki.dropbox.com/TipsAndTricks/UbuntuServerInstall | |
### | |
# Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy | |
# of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal | |
# in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights | |
# to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell | |
# copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is | |
# furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: | |
# | |
# The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in | |
# all copies or substantial portions of the Software. | |
# | |
# THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR | |
# IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, | |
# FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE | |
# AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER | |
# LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, | |
# OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN | |
# THE SOFTWARE. | |
### | |
# All of the following commands are run as root, or run this script as root. | |
# Download and extract the Dropbox daemon itself into a system location | |
sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/dropbox | |
sudo wget -qO- http://www.dropbox.com/download/?plat=lnx.x86 | tar xz --strip 1 -C /usr/local/dropbox | |
sudo useradd -r -m -d /etc/dropbox -U -s /bin/false dropbox | |
sudo chown dropbox.dropbox /etc/dropbox | |
sudo chmod 700 /etc/dropbox | |
sudo su -l dropbox -s /bin/bash | |
umask 0027 | |
/usr/local/dropbox/dropboxd | |
# Open the URL dropboxd gives you in a browser to link it to your account | |
# Exit dropboxd with C-c AFTER you've done this | |
exit | |
# If you're OCD, you can remove everything from /etc/dropbox except .dropbox and Dropbox now | |
# For Ubuntu 9.10 and later, this is an upstart script for starting and stopping dropbox with | |
# `start dropbox` and `stop dropbox`. Users of earlier Ubuntu or non-upstart distros, see | |
# http://wiki.dropbox.com/TipsAndTricks/TextBasedLinuxInstall for startup service configuration. | |
sudo cat <<EOF | sed -e "s,%,$,g" >/etc/init/dropbox.conf | |
# Dropbox upstart script | |
description "Dropbox" | |
author "Jesse B. Hannah <jesse@jbhannah.net>" | |
start on runlevel [2345] | |
stop on runlevel [!2345] | |
respawn | |
env HOME=/etc/dropbox | |
umask 0027 | |
pre-start script | |
[ ! -e "$HOME/.dropbox/command_socket" ] || rm $HOME/.dropbox/command_socket | |
[ ! -e "$HOME/.dropbox/iface_socket" ] || rm $HOME/.dropbox/iface_socket | |
[ ! -e "$HOME/.dropbox/unlink.db" ] || rm $HOME/.dropbox/unlink.db | |
end script | |
script | |
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8 | |
exec su -s /bin/sh -c /usr/local/dropbox/dropbox dropbox | |
end script | |
EOF | |
sudo start dropbox |
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# Dropbox upstart script | |
description "Dropbox" | |
author "Jesse B. Hannah <jesse@jbhannah.net>" | |
start on runlevel [2345] | |
stop on runlevel [!2345] | |
respawn | |
env HOME=/etc/dropbox | |
umask 0027 | |
pre-start script | |
[ ! -e "$HOME/.dropbox/command_socket" ] || rm $HOME/.dropbox/command_socket | |
[ ! -e "$HOME/.dropbox/iface_socket" ] || rm $HOME/.dropbox/iface_socket | |
[ ! -e "$HOME/.dropbox/unlink.db" ] || rm $HOME/.dropbox/unlink.db | |
end script | |
script | |
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8 | |
exec su -s /bin/sh -c /usr/local/dropbox/dropbox dropbox | |
end script |
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