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Restarting / interrogating Indexing Via SSH Commands

Ever since I updated to OS 5 (massive mistake) I’ve been experiencing the following problem

After a random period of uptime the drive no longer recognizes new files have been added to the drive and refuses to show them in cloud view (appear fine over SMB)

I have to totally restart the drive and it will trigger a few hours / days worth of indexing to get new added files to show up.

I’d like to be able to check the status of the indexing service(s) and possibly restart them if they have (as I suspect) stopped without having to do a full reboot.

I’ve enabled SSH but cannot find a suitable equivalent for the service command in the OS5’s list of available commands.

What services are used during the indexing procedure and what command should I use to interrogate & control these services (if even possible)

Thanks

Hi @Katash,

Please refer to the article My Cloud: Access Using SSH (Secure Shell):

For more information, please contact the WD Technical Support team for the best assistance and troubleshooting:

Am I missing something? - that article just tells me how to access SSH, which I’ve already done?

I need help with specific commands.

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