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As the title says, how do i update my sab client running on ubuntu server without wiping out all my configurations/settings?

run it as a service. See the SABnzbd document how to do that. BTW: do you know "sudo"? Rule of thumb: never log in as root. the only sab document i found is this http://wiki.sabnzbd.org/install-ubuntu-repo and it clearly states that i got to edit the faile inside etc/default which i have ...

Just type and run 'sabnzbdplus' Why do you run as root? That goes against the rules of Ubuntu, and Linux in general. reason why is because at first i could not even edit that file on my default username for some reason! anyways sabnzbdplus works it looks me into sab! But if i exit via putty, sab st...

yes i am running as root. i cant post full info now as i have cleared session :( it seems to have installed ok now, let me check: edit: permission denied when i try this: /etc/default/sabnzbdplus root@linxuServer:~# /etc/default/sabnzbdplus -bash: /etc/default/sabnzbdplus: Permission denied root@lin...

See my post with "ls ..." ... ls says this: drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 Jun 10 18:34 . drwx------ 7 root root 4096 Jun 10 18:04 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 10 18:34 admin drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 10 17:44 logs -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2647 Jun 10 18:34 sabnzbd.ini -rw-r--r-- 1...

Error: Can't write to logfile [fail] invoke-rc.d: initscript sabnzbdplus, action "start" failed. The above is apt trying to restart the service after an update, and failing to do so because sabnzbd reports it cannot write to its log file . Fix that problem (permissions? disk full?) and ev...

sander wrote:... I'm not sure: the apt-get also tries to install sabnzbd, and then gives an error.

Back to the basics:

sudo apt-get remove sabnzbdplus
sudo apt-get purge sabnzbdplus

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade


... is that error free?

Yea

all error free. whats next?

i tried sudo apt-get install nzbget and it diddnt work. You say it is a system issue? in what way? where do i start to try and fix this system issue? anyways here is the error below: jonathan@linxuServer:~$ sudo apt-get install nzbget Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading st...

what file did uc hange user permission?

Hi. i am having issues installing sab because of the following error below: Error: Can't write to logfile [fail] invoke-rc.d: initscript sabnzbdplus, action "start" failed. dpkg: error processing sabnzbdplus (--configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit s...

Good. Now go to your other computer on your LAN, start your webbrowser, and surf to http://192.168.0.3:8080/ im afraid i cant. i am doing everything via remotely away from home using putty and i am able to start sabznbd via putty and view its UI. But i still cant access it from a web browser using ...

Hi, the output is same, it brings up the UI using both localhost and 192.168.0.3 Good. Now go to your other computer on your LAN, start your webbrowser, and surf to http://192.168.0.3:8080/ im afraid i cant. i am doing everything via remotely away from home using putty and i am able to start sabznb...

I get the exact same results as last time. i.e 192.168.0.3 eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:50:8d:e5:61:74           inet addr:192.168.0.3  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0           inet6 addr: fe80::250:8dff:fee5:6174/64 Scope:Link           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500...

I get the exact same results as last time. i.e 192.168.0.3 eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:50:8d:e5:61:74           inet addr:192.168.0.3  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0           inet6 addr: fe80::250:8dff:fee5:6174/64 Scope:Link           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500 ...

root@joshserver:~# ps -ef | grep -i sabnzbd root      4544  4521  0 20:04 pts/1    00:00:00 grep --color=auto -i sabnzbd Above, is the ooutput. thanks ??? The output of ps -ef means that SABnzbd is not running. So go back to step 1: check with "lynx http://localhost:8080/" that SABnzbd is...