Running dropbox on central servers

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To run dropbox from the command line on e.g. hms1 do the following:

  ssh hms1
  unset DISPLAY
  wget -O dropbox.tar.gz http://www.dropbox.com/download/?plat=lnx.x86_64
  tar -zxvf dropbox.tar.gz
  cd .dropbox-dist
  ./dropboxd &

On the screen you will now get an URL like:

  https://www.dropbox.com/cli_link?host_id=978d4a6f26218311b17d13e511dE215

Open this link in a browser (on any PC) and log on to your dropbox account. Next log off hms1 and log on again and write:

  cd .dropbox-dist
  nohup ./dropboxd &

The daemon will run until next reboot (i.e. you should generally perform the last step once every month after the patch-day).