# This document is OBSOLETE, please use the port instead # This document shows how to install traccar (http://www.traccar.org) on OpenBSD # It has been tested on a fresh install of OpenBSD 5.3 amd64 # First login as root # Set a PKG_PATH if not already done export PKG_PATH=ftp://ftp.eu.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/`uname -r`/packages/`uname -m`/ # Let's install the mandatory packages (jdk will be installed but jre is sufficient) pkg_add jdk unzip # Create the user and group which will run traccar using a low UID/GID as this is a service groupadd -g 702 _traccar useradd -g 702 -u 702 -c 'Traccar daemon' -L daemon -m -d /var/www/traccar -s /bin/ksh _traccar chmod 700 /var/www/traccar # Switch to _traccar user su - _traccar # Download and unpack traccar package for linux x64 ftp -o traccar.zip 'http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/traccar/traccar-linux-64-2.2.zip?r=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.traccar.org%2Fdownload.jsp' unzip traccar.zip # install traccar into intended directory and clean sh traccar.run --noexec --target /var/www/traccar rm traccar.zip traccar.run # given traccar is not installed in the /opt directory, alter the configuration file perl -p -i -e 's|opt|var/www|g' conf/traccar.cfg # It might be a good idea to let the web interface only run on localhost and set for example nginx run as a proxy with a SSL certificate for the web interface. # For that, search conf/traccar.conf and add '127.0.0.1' after the port 8082 entry. # configuring nginx to do the forwarding is out of the scope of this document # Create a startup script as traccar default startup involves a wrapper not available (yet) for OpenBSD cat <starttraccar.sh #!/bin/sh /usr/local/jdk-1.7.0/bin/java -jar tracker-server.jar conf/traccar.cfg EOF chmod 755 starttraccar.sh # Then, make traccar start at boot exit # <-- go back to root echo "su - _traccar -c 'cd /var/www/traccar && nohup ./starttraccar.sh &'" >> /etc/rc.local # traccar is now installed, but you might need to personalize it, like remove all the protocols you don't need, use a MySQL database.