Category: Synology
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unsuccessful installation of DSM 6.1.6-15266 on my Synololgy DiskStation DS713+
https://www.synology.com/en-uk/releaseNote/DS713+ I do not succeed installing DSM 6.1.6-15266 on my DS713+: Unknown error occurs (21). This has happened repeatedly since Thursday/Friday midnight. Update: rebooted, re-downloaded the update, update succeeded.
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plan9port AKA “Plan 9 from User Space”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_User_Space https://github.com/9fans/plan9port https://9fans.github.io/plan9port/man/man1/intro.html : do not put the Plan 9 utilities’ directory a the beginning of your PATH! “9base is a port of various original Plan 9 tools for Unix, based on plan9port“: https://github.com/UNGLinux/9base https://git.suckless.org/9base https://tools.suckless.org/9base Optware-ng one my Synology NAS has a 9base package: root@DiskStation $ ipkg files 9base /opt/lib/9base/bin/… /opt/lib/9base/lib/… /opt/share/man/man1/…
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ipkg, opkg, Optware, Optware-ng, Entware, Entware-ng for my Synology NASes
Linux package management systems for embedded systems. The utilities: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ipkg – the history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/opkg – ipkg fork, the currently popular one The repositories: Optware, Optware-ng, Entware, Entware-ng: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optware – how it all started https://github.com/Optware/Optware – outdated https://github.com/Optware/Optware-ng – an Optware fork using opkg – supports PPC, i686, …; does not support x86-64 – this page has the installation instructions – they do use…
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“pdftohtml” – the one PDF utility I cannot “be” without
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poppler_(software) – very nice description of the poppler-utils https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xpdf https://github.com/Entware-ng/Entware-ng https://github.com/Entware-ng/Entware-ng/wiki https://github.com/Entware-ng/Entware-ng/wiki/Install-on-Synology-NAS I actually mean “pdftohtml -xml” – which creates XML from PDF, and this is my command line: $ pdftohtml -xml -i -nomerge -hidden FILE.pdf resp.: $ pdftohtml -xml -i -nomerge -hidden FILE.pdf FILE.pdftohtml.xml Sometimes I need to run “pdftohtml -xml” (on the command line)…
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Synology knowledge base: What kind of CPU does my Synology NAS have?
https://www.synology.com/en-global/knowledgebase/DSM/tutorial/General/What_kind_of_CPU_does_my_NAS_have
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disabling password authentication with sshd
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20898384/ssh-disable-password-authentication Apparently there are numerous attempts to log into my NAS (with invalid passwords) from the WAN side. Synology offers a feature to block IP addresses after a couple of invalid attempts and also log that blocking, and I am making use of that feature. After quite some months I got worried by the overwhelming…
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Synology’s Virtual Machine Manager
https://www.synology.com/en-global/beta/2017_VMM https://www.synology.com/en-global/beta/2017_VMM/ReleaseNotes … models with less than 4GB of memory cannot run virtual machines …
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MySQL / MariaDB and “CEST” as server time zone value
My Synology DS713+ had a couple of package updates, MariaDB being one of them. I am running hibiscus-server, which has its own database on a MariaDB (MySQL) server there. 5.5.54-MariaDB – this looks currently like the only relevant updated piece hibiscus-server-2.7.0-1418 mysql-connector-java-6.0.5.jar On restarting that hibiscus server the connection to the MariaDB server keeps failing: detected…
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Synology: the DSM-6.1 update disables the “Intrusion Prevention” package – that’s a disaster
The packages will not receive any future updates and will be disabled after the system update. Intrusion Prevention I am at loss. How to ensure intrusion prevention from now on? Is the firewall (control panel / security) good enough? https://www.synology.com/en-uk/releaseNote/DS713+ (Version: 6.1-15047) Known Issues & Limitations Ended support for Intrusion Prevention since DSM 6.1. This package…