Ted

A friend of mine tested the daemon on Linux and it gave him the following error:
david:~/tedv096$ java -cp ted.jar ted.headless.Daemon

java.io.FileNotFoundException: /home/david/ted/30.rock-s3_e14.torrent (No such file or directory)

at java.io.FileOutputStream.open(Native Method)

at java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>(FileOutputStream.java:209)

at java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>(FileOutputStream.java:160)

at ted.TedIO.downloadTorrent(Unknown Source)

at ted.TedParser.downloadBest(Unknown Source)

at ted.TedParser.parseFeeds(Unknown Source)

at ted.TedParser.run(Unknown Source)

at ted.headless.Daemon.parseShows(Unknown Source)

at ted.headless.Daemon.runDaemon(Unknown Source)

at ted.headless.Daemon.main(Unknown Source)



/home/david/ted/ doesn't exists. No idea why he's reading from that location

In /home/david/ted096/ there is no torrent available. It should have been put in /home/dtor/autoadd/

He also noted that it isn't a real daemon as the process doesn't automatically start in the background. Can this be done? Or should you use the & command in your Linux terminal to overcome this problem?

Hi,

I'll have to take a look in the File Not Found Exception as I never got that one. However I think its Parser related and not particullary to Daemon (who in fact, just invokes the parser).

I can add some code for the Daemon to automatically detach from the console. However I'll first post a startup script for David to add to his Linux runlevel. The script invokes Ted with '&' which is the same thing as the Daemon dettaching himself from the console, plus is more flexible.

There is also an annoying bug that I'm struggling to solve: sometimes (i hate this 'sometimes' bugs) the shows configuration file is not updated after downloading a given episode (that is, the episode number does not get incremented). So, when the deamon is restarted it downloads from the previous episode number. I'll try to give a look on these 3 issues soon.

I had a time to do some research. As i thought there is **no** portable way to run Ted as a Daemon (or any other Java program). There are some libraries that helps developers to do this, but **always** depend on something OS-specific. This is because you can't lauch another SO process, just VM threads. So, what i'll do is provide the Linux/*Nix way to run Ted as a Daemon and, in the near future (hoppefully before 0.97) the same instructions for Windows so we can cover most of our user base. For MAC I assume the same script for Linux will work (maybe you can test this later).

Regards

> I'll have to take a look in the File Not Found Exception as I never got that one. However I think its Parser related and not particullary to Daemon (who in fact, just invokes the parser).

Hmm, I'll ask David if it does work with the UI enabled. Will get back to you on this one.

> There is also an annoying bug that I'm struggling to solve: sometimes (i hate this 'sometimes' bugs) the shows configuration file is not updated after downloading a given episode (that is, the episode number does not get incremented). So, when the deamon is restarted it downloads from the previous episode number. I'll try to give a look on these 3 issues soon.

Maybe you've to call SaveShows immediately after a parsing round? It could be that it does increment the episode nr but you close the application too quickly and this increment isn't saved at that point.

> So, what i'll do is provide the Linux/*Nix way to run Ted as a Daemon and, in the near future (hoppefully before 0.97) the same instructions for Windows so we can cover most of our user base. For MAC I assume the same script for Linux will work (maybe you can test this later).

Okay, sounds fine. Roel could test the daemon on his Mac if that is ready.

Moved this to v0.98 as the main developer of this feature currently isn't working at ted.

See comment in: FS#283 - Make plug-in support for ted