Newbie/mac user in trouble

[motze]

Hi – just purchased a slug – have had it unsling and now in serious trouble (from my point of view).

I have a bad mp3 directory problem – since I’m a total newbie – the word “vi editor gives me the shivers”

This is as far I have come – I’ve detected the problem (which I was aware of

# /opt/sbin/mt-daapd -d9 -f  -m -c /opt/etc/mt-daapd/mt-daapd.conf

Read web_root: /opt/share/mt-daapd/admin-root

Read port: 3689

Read admin_pw: mt-daapd

Read db_dir: /opt/var/mt-daapd

Read mp3_dir: /share/hdd/data/public/mp3

Read servername: NSLU2 Music

Read runas: guest

Read playlist: /opt/etc/mt-daapd/mt-daapd.playlist

Read extensions: .mp3,.m4a,.m4p

Read rescan_interval: 600

Read always_scan: 0

Checking existence of /share/hdd/data/public/mp3

Bad mp3 directory (/share/hdd/data/public/mp3): No such file or directory

Error reading config file (/opt/etc/mt-daapd/mt-daapd.conf)

#

Still – using the

 # vi /opt/etc/mt-daapd/mt-daapd.conf

gives me the following message:

# vi opt/etc/mt-daapd/mt-daapd.conf



# $Id: mt-daapd.conf 1148 2005-02-15 03:35:19Z rpedde $

#

# This is the mt-daapd config file.

#

# If you have problems or questions with the format of this file,

# direct your questions to [email protected].

#

# You can also check the website at http://mt-daapd.sourceforge.net,

# as there is a growing documentation library there, peer-supported

# forums and possibly more.

#



#

# web_root (required)

#

# Location of the admin web pages.  If you installed from

# ipk, this is correct

#



web_root        /opt/share/mt-daapd/admin-root



#

# port (required)

"opt/etc/mt-daapd/mt-daapd.conf" line 1 of 249 --0%--



















# $Id: mt-daapd.conf 1148 2005-02-15 03:35:19Z rpedde $

#

# This is the mt-daapd config file.

#

# If you have problems or questions with the format of this file,

# direct your questions to [email protected].

#

# You can also check the website at http://mt-daapd.sourceforge.net,

# as there is a growing documentation library there, peer-supported

# forums and possibly more.

#



#

# web_root (required)

#

# Location of the admin web pages.  If you installed from

# ipk, this is correct

#



web_root        /opt/share/mt-daapd/admin-root



#

# port (required)  

And this is where I as a mac user and newbie gets scared – I only want to change the directory from

share/hdd/data/mp3

to

share/flash/data/mp3

Are there anyone outthere who can se I have done something wrong, and have guidelines to fix it (which will make me come back with a lot of questions) or any who knows that I only have to … and then type in whatever I need to paste into the termininal to change the directory.

Much appriciated if you could help me
Morten

[rpedde]

@motze wrote:

Still – using the

 # vi /opt/etc/mt-daapd/mt-daapd.conf

gives me the following message:
[/code]

That’s no message, that’s the editing program!

Still, vi is pretty ugly. You might try nano:

# ipkg install nano

# export term=vt100

# nano /opt/etc/mt-daapd/mt-daapd.conf

Then you can scroll with the cursor keys (or ctrl-n), and scroll down the lin that says:

mp3_dir /share/hdd/data/mp3

Press “ctrl-k” while you are sitting on that line. Then, add the line you want:

mp3_dir /share/flash/data/mp3

Then “ctrl-w” to write the file and “ctrl-x” to exit.

If you make a mistake, just do “ctrl-x” to exit, and tell it you don’t want to save when it asks.

You should be good then.

NOTE: Make sure you are using putty, not windows telnet!

— Ron

[motze]

I installed nano (with succes) but when using the code

# export term=vt100

# nano /opt/etc/mt-daapd/mt-daapd.conf 

I was greeted with a bad directory message.

But since I had taken notice of your

That’s no message, that’s the editing program!

I decided that I would give vi a go anyway – I found out that in the mac’s terminal only a small part of the conf. file was shown – old news to most of you but very new to me.

Yesterday I had printed out a vi reference card and followed these guides together with the commands that you had sent me – and after having messed around for a few minuttes – things started to make sense and I now finally have a good slug runnning as Itunes server – thanks a million for helping me with the first steps.

regards
Morten

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