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Install resin on the raspberry pi

Yes resin can be installed on the raspberry PI, too. Here are some instructions to achieve this.

Download and install

Download the latest resin package and uncompress it. Follow the usual steps for configure and install, which are:

  • configure
  • make
  • sudo make install

We don't need root privileges for the first two, but yes for the latest.

The install procedure has created the following directories and files:

PathWhat is
/etc/resin Configuration files
/etc/init.d/resin The daemon script, to start and stop the server
/var/resin To locate the web pages
/var/log/resin Location of log files
/usr/local/share The program itself

Create a resin user for running the web server

We have created a resin user. This user will be the one who will run the application. This is a safer scenario than running as a root user.

# addgroup resin
# adduser --ingroup resin --home /home/resin  resin

Please choose a difficult password and forget it because you won't need to log in as this user anymore.

Change permissions in favor of the resin user

I prefer to change the ownership of the files of the application to the resin user, although this is not entirely necessary. In fact, it is more savvy to keep them as root ownership, because it prevents them to be overwritten in case of an intrusion.

# cd /usr/local/share
# chown resin:resin resin 
# cd /var
# chown resin:resin resin 
# chown o-x,o-r resin 

Minor fixings

I've tried to run the application and I've discovered that the application look for a directories who don't exist, but who have a simple solution. Here are my notes:

</code> # symbolic link to the resin configuration from the application directory # ln -s /etc/resin /usr/local/share/resin/conf # symbolic link to the resin log from the application directory # ln -s /var/log/resin /var/log/resin </code>

Changes in the ''/etc/init.d/resin'' script

I've made the following changes in this script:

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