JDOWNLOADER - Rapidshare on the headless machine

Since torrents are getting scarce on the net, rapidshare seems to be an option

Install

sudo apt-get install sun-java6-bin sun-java6-jre sun-java6-jdk sun-java6-plugin fluxbox tightvncserver

Setting up vnc server 

vncpasswd

vncserver

Connect with VncClient, like tightvnc (according to the port and pwd selected above)


in the vnc Window (X server needed) install jdwonloader


with

$wget -c http://212.117.163.148/jd.sh

After download let's make it executable and run it :

$chmod +x jd.sh
$./jd.sh

Since my headless machine has only 128MB RAM , Jdownloader crashes after 5hours or so. Therefore I kill the java PID and restart it using cron (Assuming there is a vnc session on display1 and I configured JDownloader to automatically restart the app on startup)

7 0,6,12,18 * * * killall java >/dev/null 2>&1; export DISPLAY=:1 ;/usr/bin/java -Xmx512m -jar .jd/JDownloader.jar >/dev/null 2>&1

or even better: start the beast lke this in a vncserver bash

  while true; do killall java; java -Xmx1024m -jar /home/daevu/.jd/JDownloader.jar; sleep 21000; done

Reference:

http://service.jdownloader.net/old/wiki.jdownloader.org/indexd69d.html?title=Running_On_A_Headless_Linux_Server
and
http://www.skullbox.net/vncserver.php
and
http://www.ubuntu-inside.me/2009/02/jdownloader-ultimate-freepremium.html