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@rlees85 Thank you very much for your suggestions! I implemented them with the new revision.

For anyone upgrading and not being able to start the server now: You most likely just have to add DatabaseDir: "/var/lib/fmdserver/db" to the config file at /etc/fmdserver/config.yml

This packages the server for the FindMyDevice android app. It installs a systemd service to mange the server called findmydeviceserver.service. This service will run the server with the findmydevice user which was specifically created for the application. If you want to run it without the systemd unit the executable is /usr/bin/fmdserver.

Configuration is in /etc/fmdserver/config.yml. An example config can be found there if the package was newly installed. The data directory, where the database is also stored, can be found in /var/lib/fmdserver/.

It is recommended to use the server with a reverse proxy.

@chris.imx: Yes, thank you. I did what you proposed, except that nginx does not have its own user - it runs as root and the worker processes as http, so therefore the correct command is: sudo usermod -aG findmydevice http.

Hi @Taijian, have you been able to fix the issue? Did you leave the socket path as /run/findmydeviceserver/findmydeviceserver.sock and UnixSocketChmod: 0660 in /etc/fmdserver/config.yml? If yes, then the issue is most likely that the nginx user is not added to the findmydevice group which is needed for accessing the socket file. You can use sudo usermod -aG findmydevice nginx to fix this. Then restart nginx so the change takes effect.

@Terrance Hi, good catch. I've now removed npm from the make-dependencies.

I seem to have a slight issue:

By default, this packages service is runnig so well hardened, that nginx (my reverse proxy) can not access the socket file, which kinda defeats the purpose of having that thing set up in the first place...

Anyone have an idea of how to solve that issue?

This package lists both npm and pnpm as make-depends, but only uses the latter. It seems to build and run fine without npm installed, so can that be dropped from the dependencies?

@rlees85 Thank you very much for your suggestions! I implemented them with the new revision.

For anyone upgrading and not being able to start the server now: You most likely just have to add DatabaseDir: "/var/lib/fmdserver/db" to the config file at /etc/fmdserver/config.yml

Thanks for making this package. I was going to do the same since I have a similar thing hosted elsewhere.

Just a couple of suggestions: could the database path not be hard coded (and removed from the systemd service)? If there is not a default within the binary could ship a default configuration file instead with the database path specified. At least that way it can be overridden.

IF a default configuration is shipped I'd recommend setting a default unix socket path too thats in /run/findmydeviceserver/findmydeviceserver.sock and adding the following tmpfile:

d /run/findmydeviceserver 0750 findmydevice findmydevice -

The database path being much more important

Ahh, I guess it uses an external directory if you still have one configured. I'll have to try removing that line and see if it fixes things. Thanks for the response!

@prurigro That's correct. I removed that because they are now embedded into the server binary.

As of d69cbd6ffd1b this package no longer appears to install the web files