calibredb does not work with content server running (content server is using --enable

[Irvin]

Hi all,

I cannot use calibredb on ubuntu command line because of

"Another calibre program ... is running". But calibre-server is running with "--enable-local-write"

What I'm doing wrong?

How can I use calbredb at the same time, while calibre-server is running?

with best regards,
Irvin




Logs:

root@host1:~# calibredb --version
calibredb (calibre 3.7)
root@host1:~#
root@host1:~# calibre-server --version
calibre-server (calibre 3.7)
root@host1:~#



root@host1:~# uname -a
Linux host1 4.15.0-1021-aws #21-Ubuntu SMP Tue Aug 28 10:23:07 UTC 2018 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

root@host1:~# ps -edalf | grep calibre | grep -v grep
4 S root 1 0 0 80 0 - 272788 poll_s 15:34 ? 00:00:01 /usr/bin/python2.7 /usr/bin/calibre-server /opt/calibre/library --enable-local-write

root@host1:~# calibredb list_categories --library-path /opt/calibre/library
Another calibre program such as calibre-server or the main calibre program is running. Having multiple programs that can make changes to a calibre library running at the same time is a bad idea. calibredb can connect directly to a running calibre content server, to make changes through it, instead. See the documentation of the --with-library option for details.

[kovidgoyal]

You need to pass the URL of the server as --library-path, see https://manual.calibre-ebook.com/gen...calibredb.html

[Irvin]

Ok. Thank you.

[kleedrac]

I'm having a similar issue. The server is running fine but I'm trying to make a script to auto-add books in a certain directory. If I invoke the command:

calibredb add --recurse --with-library="http://127.0.0.1:8080/#calibre" --username="kleedrac" --password=</home/kleedrac/pwd> "/home/kleedrac/calibre/toadd"

it returns "-bash: /home/kleedrac/calibre/toadd/: is a directory"

If I reword it to
calibredb add --with-library="http://127.0.0.1:8080/#calibre" --username="kleedrac" --password=</home/kleedrac/pwd> --recurse "/home/kleedrac/calibre/toadd/"

it says nothing in the terminal but creates a file called --recurse in the /home/kleedrac/calibre/toadd/ folder! What am I doing wrong? The server is invoked with both --enable-local-write and --enable-auth

EDIT: Apparently I didn't read the documentation closely enough and wasn't escaping the <> characters. The command as it worked was:

calibredb add /home/kleedrac/calibre/toadd/ --recurse --with-library="http://127.0.0.1:8080/#calibre" --username="kleedrac" --password="<f:/home/kleedrac/pwd>"

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