Basic Instructions

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Basics

There is no GUI at the moment.

Memopal runs as unprivileged user on Command Line Interface

or as a service (as root user)

Using it on command line tip&tricks

Typical usage

memopal -u username -p password --backupFolder /[complete_path]

see memopal -h for list of command line options

Problem with ssl

In many cases there is a mess with CA certificate files, which are in different path for different releases.

If memopal complains about SSL

specify --caCertPath option

memopal -u username -p password --caCertpath [pathtocafile] --backupFolder /[complete_path]

it's somewhere in /etc

for ubuntu/debian: /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt

in case file is missing, since we force you to have ca-certificates package rebuild it doing:

[sudo|run as root] update-ca-certificates

for fedora: /etc/pki/tls/cert.pem

Using it as a system service

Once you installed it (see Installation)

run it once manually as root

su - root
memopal -u username -p password --backupFolder /[complete_path]

or

sudo -i
memopal -u username -p password --backupFolder /[complete_path]

From now on you can use it as as system service.

there is an init script (called memopal)

...
/etc/init.d/memopal [start|stop]
...

Then if you wish add it to a runlevel (usually 5 for X windows interface)

...
cd /etc/rc5.d/
ln -s ../init.d/memopal S95memopal
...

Installation

Debian Based distributions (Debian & Ubuntu)

Get the .deb package from our betaprogram

dpkg -i memopal-xxx.deb

If installation fails for unmet dependencies, let the system resolve them doing:

apt-get -f install

RPM Based distributions (Fedora)

Get the .rpm file from page

rpm -U memopal-xxx-x.rpm

If you have unmet dependencies, ask yum to download it:

yum install missingpackage

SSL certs!!!

Please note again that fedora puts CA cert files in a different place you have to specify it from command line

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