I've been trying to set up dropbox on an ubuntu 10.04.2 server to use for backup. I don't want dropbox to be tied to my user account on the server as someone may take over as administrator with a different user account next year. To achieve this I've been following the instructions on http://wiki.dropbox.com/TipsAndTricks/UbuntuServerInstall.
The problem is when it comes to executing the dropox daemon to register the account I get the following error message...
dropbox@thomas:~$ /usr/local/dropbox/dropboxd
-su: /usr/local/dropbox/dropbox: No such file or directory
I'm using the following commands to install and set up dropox...
sudo -s (from my personal account on the server)
groupadd dropbox; useradd -r -d /var/dropbox -g dropbox -s /bin/false dropbox
mkdir -p /usr/local/dropbox /etc/dropbox
chown dropbox.dropbox /var/dropbox; chmod 700 /var/dropbox
wget -O /tmp/dropbox.tar.gz http://www.dropbox.com/download/?plat=lnx.x86
tar xvzf /tmp/dropbox.tar.gz -C /usr/local/dropbox --strip 1
su -l dropbox -s /bin/bash; umask 0027
/usr/local/dropbox/dropboxd
The file permissions on the dropboxd and dropbox files are...
dropbox@thomas:~$ ls -la /usr/local/dropbox/dropbox*
-rwxr-xr-x 2 cje46 cje46 11329751 2011-04-26 06:37 /usr/local/dropbox/dropbox
-rwxr-xr-x 1 cje46 cje46 238 2011-04-26 06:37 /usr/local/dropbox/dropboxd
And to be clear the command is being executed by the dropbox system user.
Hope someone out there has had the same problem and would be able to lend a hand cos this has got me really stumped!
