Home Server Software Ideas

**quietas** · February 20th, 2009

What al are you using on your headless home server?

I'm not necessarily wondering about Gnome/KDE apps since Ubuntu server is a CLI driven headless server. CLI or web based and available in the repositories would be best.

Here's my system I have setup recently and am using now:

Ubuntu Server 8.10 Intrepid (8.04 Hardy upgraded, headless troll which lives in my closet)
Ebox - Web GUI, Samba, Squid, Dan's Guardian, DNS, DHCP, PDC (essentially home router/gateway management)
Firefly Media Server - Itunes compatible DAAP server for network MP3 sharing
TorrentFlux - Web based torrent downloading

What else is out there which would be useful? Chime in and out it out there. I have seen plenty of people asking about home servers, so we might as well let everyone know what we can actually do.

One thing I thought of, but not yet found, is some web based stats page to act as a home page. Also a web based file manager, something like AjaXplorer (http://www.ajaxplorer.info) would be useful.

**E_K** · February 20th, 2009

not sure what kind of stats your looking for but check out cacti, I have a web based php file manager that you could use, but that is not from repos

**insineratehymn** · February 20th, 2009

On Ubuntu 7.10 900mhz 256mb 540gb hd:

Twonky Media Server: HD over hardline to wireless to xBox 360
rTorrent: CLI based torrent program (and anti-ISP shaping)
webmin: If Im lazy.
Apache2
OpenSSH
sshfs

**quietas** · February 20th, 2009

Originally Posted by E_K

not sure what kind of stats your looking for but check out cacti, I have a web based php file manager that you could use, but that is not from repos

I set up a quick index.html to link to ebox, firefly, torrentflux. I'd like make that a bit more functional with cpu temp, load, drive usage, network speed. Similar to something like Rainlender or Samurize or Conky, but as a web front end to my server with a section for links.

**E_K** · February 20th, 2009

well heres something i wrote to monitor some of those things on my server

first you need to install 2 things

Code:

apt-get install hddtemp

then follow this to install and setup lm-sensors

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2780

and heres what i use to post it to the web, you will have to adapt the script for yourself it should be fairly neatly set out, i didnt plan on sharing it, but you can change whatever you want and remove my name, but if you earn money with it i want 50% hehehe

Code:

nano output.sh

then paste this in

Code:

#!/bin/bash
TERM=linux
#
# Server Stats 2 Html v2
#
# @Paddy.Net

# user variables
export LOGFILE=/var/www/temp.html;
export SCRATCHFILE=/var/spool/temp;
export HDD0=/dev/sda;
export HDD1=/dev/sdb;

# main routine
clear;
touch $LOGFILE;
touch $SCRATCHFILE;
echo "<html>" > $LOGFILE;
echo "<head>" >> $LOGFILE;
echo "<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="300">" >> $LOGFILE;
# echo "<span style="color:#00CC00">" >> $LOGFILE;
echo "</head>" >> $LOGFILE;
echo "<BODY BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#00CC00">" >> $LOGFILE;
echo "Server Hardware Status Capture V2";
echo "";
echo "<h1>Server Hardware Status Capture V2</h1>" >> $LOGFILE;
echo "<br>" >> $LOGFILE;
echo "Designed, Created & Developed By @Paddy.Net";
echo "";
echo "<h2>Designed, Created & Developed By @Paddy.Net</h2>" >> $LOGFILE;
echo "<br>" >> $LOGFILE;
echo "Creating HTML Formated Document";
echo "";
echo "Outputing Hard Drive Temperature Statistic Readouts";
echo "";
echo "<h3>Hard Drive Temperature Statistic Readouts:</h3>" >> $LOGFILE;
echo "<h4>First Hard Disk Temperature</h4>" >> $LOGFILE;

# temperature displayed in local console will be lower than in the web view
hddtemp $HDD0;
hddtemp $HDD0 >> $LOGFILE;
echo "<br>" >> $LOGFILE;
echo "<h4>Second Hard Drive Temperature</h4>" >> $LOGFILE;
hddtemp $HDD1;
hddtemp $HDD1 >> $LOGFILE;
echo "<br>" >> $LOGFILE;
echo "<br>" >> $LOGFILE;
echo "";
echo "Outputing Hardware Statistics Readouts";
echo "";
echo "<h3>Hardware Statistics Readouts:</h3>" >> $LOGFILE;
sensors;
sensors > $SCRATCHFILE;
sed -i 's/$/<br>/' $SCRATCHFILE;
cat $SCRATCHFILE >> $LOGFILE && echo "</html>"  >> $LOGFILE && rm -vf $SCRATCHFILE;
echo "";
echo "HTML created. All temporary files have been cleaned";
echo "";

# clear environment variables
export LOGFILE=
export SCRATCHFILE=
export HDD0=
export HDD1=

exit;

then make it executable

Code:

chmod +x output.sh

and you can run by

Code:

./output.sh

or

Code:

/directory/output.sh

have fun

and as you keep it local theres webmin, but read up on the security risks

**jamesrfla** · February 20th, 2009

I run apache2, Citadel mail server, Terminal server, samba, mysql, and SSH server. I am using Ubuntu 8.04 Desktop edition so I use it as a home server and a desktop.

**CrucifiedEgo** · February 20th, 2009

I hate blogspam, but, I did a post awhile back on this. The project it was regarding is stalled for the time being, but maybe it will give you some ideas:

http://diffra.com/2008/11/home-linux-server-why/

**quietas** · February 20th, 2009

Originally Posted by CrucifiedEgo

I hate blogspam, but, I did a post awhile back on this. The project it was regarding is stalled for the time being, but maybe it will give you some ideas:

http://diffra.com/2008/11/home-linux-server-why/

I like your ideas and have already implemented most of them. I did not see Jinzora in the repos, but I'm going to look for something similar. I thought of setting up a Shoutcast/Icecast server and a few playlists to rotate through as another option.

**rhcm123** · February 20th, 2009

This is gonna make you all laugh

1997 IBM Desktop
90 Mhz AMD Processor
85 MB RAM
PC bus 100 mbps network card
250 GB Hdd (i just installed that)

Running:
Ubuntu 8.04/8.10 (depends on if i've reinstalled it again

)
-Apache2 and SSL (All webpages are over HTTPS)
-SSH/SSHFS for remote administration/data tranfer
-Webmin for remote monitoring
-Jinzora for music/video sharing
-CUPS (all computers print to it, and i can print to it from the net).
-Postfix/Courrier integrated with SquirrelMail and by BlackBerry (!)
-DHCP3 for the entire house
-SAMBA Share (1 folder in the /share directory for each user)

I think i have enough, am i rite?

**quietas** · February 20th, 2009

Lol, on a 90mhz processor. I'd say that is plenty, but also shows the power of Linux. I'd hazard to guess the web traffic is not extreme and is not serving up fancy pages?

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