Hi freedombox enthusiasts! You can get the source package here: dget -x http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/h/homealoned/homealoned_0.4.1-1.dsc
You can get a binary here: http://amazonis.lavakaquerie.com/homealoned_0.4.1-1_all.deb request for sponsor can be found here: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=681685 To run a home server has its own set of drawbacks. One of them is that no matter how percentage of the network you use for services, there may be some peaks when somebody using your network needs full upload. Also, I want my services to be completely unobtrusive and transparent for the rest of the users of my lan network. Since in a shared network I cant control who is going to be in need nor i cant tune values on the fly, i decided to make use of the network only when nobody else is using it.. Mostly at nights and at some hours during the day. homealoned allows you to detect those times and launch the appropriate set of services, stopping them almost immediately when somebody starts using the network again. Ive been using a more basic version of this daemon for more than 2 months for my own purposes and i must say it works great for what is intended to do. Ive been using it with rtorrent and my plans include a tor relay and some sync/backup scripts. The idea of the backup/shared-archives is to set one dreamplug in each house of my relatives and have a shared disk that syncs using this daemon. In this way, you will upload/sync over the disk on your most proximate disk (optimally, the one on your lan) and the info will replicate to other disks over low network utilization times becoming unobtrusive. For the services I have been using a init.d script for rtorrent. I dont know if I should include them as part of this daemon or try to include them at the upstream packages i will be integrating... some comment in this regard will be appreciated. I know this pet project Its not as fancy as those security/privacy programs that other are doing but I think is essential to have a useful fredombox. I hope others find it useful as well. greets! aL _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss
