FreeNAS Service jails
Manual setup of various services in FreeNAS jails. I have found manually set up services to be much more reliable then using FreeNAS' built in plugins.
Deluge
Setup of a jail for deluge server.
FreeNAS Configuration
User
Use the media user from FreeNAS, It's important to check the UID and GID match up with the user's for any datasets shared with the jail. I have found the media user is usually already correctly matched.
Create a dataset for deluge and mount to your desired location inside the jail. Mount the desired location inside the jail, I mounted mine to the ${HOME}/.config directory of my deluge user.
jail
The following sections were done inside the jail.
Install Deluge
Install deluge or deluge-cli depending on what you want installed. Since this is a headless server I'm only installing the CLI version.
Init Script
Setup /etc/rc.conf
Start Service
Couchpotato
Install couchpotato freebsd version from git.
FreeNAS UI
Create database dataset couchpotato and mount to /var/db/couchpotato.
Install required tools
Use user media, clone to a temp repo in /var/db.
Move the bare repo that was just cloned to the dataset we mounted earlier to /var/db/couchpotato.
Switch to the media user and reset the repo to HEAD.
As root, copy the startup script to /usr/local/etc/rc.d and make the startup script executable.
Read the options at the top of /usr/local/etc/rc.d/couchpotato.
If not using the default install, specify options with startup flags.
Finally, start couchpotato.
Restart the jail, open your browser and go to http://server:5050/.
Emby
FreeNAS
Create dataset, mount at /var/db/emby
Jail
In the jail, update all packages and install emby-server.
FFMpeg
It's recommended to install ffmpeg from ports so that certain compile time options can be enabled.
Update the FreeBSD ports tree
Remove the default ffmpeg package
Reinstall FFMpeg from ports with lame option enabled
enable the lame option
enable the ass subtitles option
enable the opus subtitles option
enable the x265 subtitles option
Compile and install.
ImageMagick
It is recommended to recompile the graphics/ImageMagick package from ports with the following options .
disable (unset) 16BIT_PIXEL (to increase thumbnail generation performance)
Delete the imagemagick pkg.
Install from ports
Disable the 16BIT_PIXEL option
Emby Start Options
Set the rc script executable.
Check the options.
Set emby to start on boot and change the options based on setup.
Start the emby service.
Pod
In Jail
Enter jail.
Update.
Requirements
bash requires fdescfs(5) mounted on /dev/fd, add to boot tasks in FreeNAS UI.
Create User
Create user 'pod'.
Install bashpod
Clone the script.
FreeNAS Task
In order to run from FreeNAS, create a new task that runs the bashpod script.
Sabnzbd
FreeNAS
Create dataset, mount at /var/db/sabnzbd
Jail
Enter jail.
Update and install sabnzbd.
Restart jail
Edit config in /var/db/sabnzbd, change host to 0.0.0.0
SickRage
In Jail
Enter jail.
Update.
Install requirements.
Install SickRage.
Copy the startup script
Make startup script executable
Add settings to rc.conf
Start SickRage.
Syncthing
Create User Syncthing
On FreeNAS with ID 983, nologin
In Jail
Enter jail.
Update and install syncthing.
Add the following to rc.conf:
Configure
Start syncthing as an initial test:
service syncthing start
Edit vim /var/db/syncthing/config.xml and change the IP address which the GUI will be accessible from. This will enable accessing the GUI from a remote computer:
Before:
After:
Restart the service for changes to apply:
Finally, access the GUI by pointing a browser to the server's address and port, ie http://SERVER_URL:8384.
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