ServerBeep daemon installation


1. Login as root via SSH to your Linux box, create a new account and switch to it:

adduser serverbeep && su - serverbeep


2. Download the daemon and unpack it:

wget http://www.serverbeep.com/download/sb-daemon-0.1.tar.gz && tar xzvf ./sb-daemon-0.1.tar.gz && cd ./sb-daemon/


3. Add a new server in your membership area to get an authentication key.

4. Add auth key to sb-daemon.cfg and modify the config file to fit your requirements.

nano ./sb-daemon.cfg


5. Start the daemon:

python ./sb-daemon.py start


6. Add to /etc/rc.local or /etc/rc.d/rc.local:

su - serverbeep -c “python /home/serverbeep/sb-daemon/sb-daemon.py start”

to get it started after server reboot.

To make sure the daemon is working you can check its log:

tail -f /tmp/sb-daemon.log


If you encounter any issue during the daemon installation process please contact us via contact form or by sending an email to support@serverbeep.com. Please include log with error messages in your email.

Requirements

The daemon is written in Python and doesn't require any third-party software or external libraries.

The daemon was tested on Fedora and Centos servers with Python versions 2.6 and 2.7.

It should also work on other operation systems with mentioned Python versions.

sb-daemon-0.1.tar.gz checksums

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