minicom

Using to connect to the serial cable to my test pogobox.  Let's me see what is going on in a plugbox boot up.

Referenced in the plugbox link:

http://plugapps.com/index.php5/Hardware:_Pogoplug_Pro_Serial

The log notes on June 6 and 7, 2011 talk about how I used it.

This is being used to work with running iRODS under plugbox for the NARA Advance Language Processing (ALP) work the Bill Underwood.

There should also be something

There are some other links I should have saved that clued me in that the power was coming from Pogoplug and not the USB port.

Not for a Pogoplug, but does go into some good detail:  http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=11&ved=0CCwQFjAAOAo&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.neolics.com%2Fpdfs%2Fdku-5.pdf&ei=BUECTu2VDJOitge20aHIDg&usg=AFQjCNE6q5HNSrRW58jfsSvfdpOWKMHRqQ&sig2=uPCVDWt6LqxFwlzKb5ARxA

Just a short not at the bottom: http://www.pogoplugged.com/forum/thread/11515/How-To-Find-mkfs-jffs2-and-other-tools-on-Pogoplug/?page=2#1692

I was unable to find the article that I was looking for :-(

3TB Drive for $140 (< $50 per TB)

http://www.buy.com/prod/western-digital-my-book-essential-3tb-usb-3-0-external-desktop-hard/q/loc/101/217438518.html

The sweet spot seems to be moving to the 3TB drives.  With free shipping this is at $47 per TB.  Also this would increase our current system from  8TB per plugbox to 12TB per plugbox.

Linux: Pogoplug: memory

To see the memory in a Linux system using the following command.

 free

Using the '-m' option will show it in megabytes.  Note this option doesn't work in the busybox; however, it does work in Ark Linux.

BusyBox link:

http://www.busybox.net/about.html

Ark Linux link:

http://www.archlinux.org/

Man page for 'free' command.

http://linux.die.net/man/1/free

On the Pogoplug pink (version 2) the memory is a follows:

• Running iRODS slave server:  50600k of 252928k (49mb of 247 mb) used
• Without iRODS:  50972k of 252928

That is amazing.  The iRODS portion is only 172k.

• Without iRODS:  

Using Arch Linux: Pacman, hostname, time

pacman

The main command to run to keep everything up-to-date is:

• pacman -Syu
• '-S' - synchronize packages
• '-y'  - down load a fresh copy of the master package list from the server(s).  Usually used with the 'u' option.
• '-u'  - upgrade all packages that are out of date.

This is the man page:

http://www.archlinux.org/pacman/pacman.8.html

hostname

Setting the host name seems to be straight forward in Arch Linux.

Set the 'HOSTNAME' variable in the /etc/rc.conf file.

 HOSTNAME="Plugbox"

Map the new name in the /etc/hosts file.

 # # /etc/hosts: static lookup table for host names #  #<ip-address>	<hostname.domain.org>	<hostname> 127.0.0.1	localhost.localdomain	localhost gtripg01 ::1		localhost.localdomain	localhost gtripg01 #127.0.0.1	Plugbox  # End of file 

Much of this information was confirmed or gleaned from this thread:

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=267786

time

This will take some time today.  I will just gather the links for now.

The Arch Linux page on time with some nice links at the bottom.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Time

The LinuxSA page on time.  Talks about 'rdate' and its replacement 'xntpd'

http://www.linuxsa.org.au/tips/time.html

General pages on time and time jargon:

http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/leapsecs/timescales.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time

I now know enough to find the correct page for setting time in PlugApps:

http://www.plugapps.com/index.php5/Application:OpenNTPD

I am not sure what the 'configuration file' is or where it is, but I will try to figure that out with I install the 'openntpd' package.

 pacman -Sy openntpd

Pogoplug Mounting a stock Image as RW

http://www.plugapps.com/index.php5/PlugApps:Pogoplug_Pro_Chroot

The command is:

• mount -t ubifs -o rw,remount,relatime /

Using rdate to set the date on the PlugApps Pogoplug

http://blogs.adobe.com/cantrell/archives/2003/05/using_rdate_to.html

Example and a site in TX that actually works.

tick.greyware.com

http://linux.die.net/man/1/rdate

The man page

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?K=rdate

I tried to get 'rdate' using the pacman tool.  It took a little bit before I realized that I need to download and install the package.

Added the following line to the rc.local file (/etc/rc.local)

Re: Pogoplug V2 Hardware Description

Memory can be found in MB using:

 [root@Plugbox Vault]# free -m              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached Mem:           247         31        215          0          3         13 -/+ buffers/cache:         15        231 Swap:            0          0          0 [root@Plugbox Vault]#  

On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 1:23 PM, Stan Hughes <hughes.stan@gmail.com> wrote:

General description of plug type hardware.

http://www.plugapps.com/index.php5/Portal:Hardware

Memory:  256M

Internal Storage:  128M

Description of Pogoplug V2 hardware.

http://www.plugapps.com/index.php5/Hardware:_Pogoplug_2

External

• 1 Front-Facing USB 2.0 Port
• 3 Rear USB 2.0 Ports
• 1 Gigabit Ethernet Port
• Regular Power cable (Not a brick)
• Power/Activity LED

Internal

• 256MB RAM
• 128MB NAND (32MB root partition, 92MB mtdblock3 partition)
• Marvell Sheeva CPU, 1.2GHz
• Serial port

iRODS seems to be running pretty well on this.  Run as server only without iCAT.