Gentoo Relay (x86)

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A Gentoo version of the relay is available to download at http://ewp.eig.ch/xw_gentoo_relais.tar.bz2. This version of the relay is a console only version.

Install

To install the gentoo version of the relay, just do the following

1. Download the portage overlay for Gentoo at http://ewp.eig.ch/xw_gentoo_relais.tar.bz2.
2. Uncompress the archive and add the portage overlay (using PORTDIR_OVERLAY in the file /etc/make.conf.
3. Update the file /etc/portage/package.keywords to unmask the gentoo worker (by inserting net-p2p/xtremweb-relais-gentoo)
4. Just run emerge net-p2p/xtremweb-relais-gentoo to install the client. This package will also install/create (if necessary)
   • Install a JVM (JDK)
   • Install some cronjob features
   • Create a user xtremwebrelais.
   • Create a folder /var/run/xtremwebrelais for the temporary data
   • Create a folder /opt/xtremwebrelais for the application data

Usage

You can use /etc/init.d/xtremwebrelais start to start the relay and /etc/init.d/xtremwebrelais stop to stop the relay. It is possible to start at the boot the xtremweb relay using rc-update add xtremwebrelais default.

Configuration

The file /etc/conf.d/xtremwebrelais contains the configuration for the relay.

The following lines describe a simply configuration file for xtremweb relay on Gentoo

port=2222
connection=10
upload=5
selfupdate_enabled=true
selfupdate_url=http://www.xtremwebch.net/relais/

Logs

All log files go into the /var/log/xtremwebrelais/ folder.