Tips & tricks

If the quadrat4.de Bootstrap Installer for ipkg package has been installed on your system and for any reason you had to restore the system configuration (but your previous volumes are still intact), you may notice that reinstalling the package does not restore the ipkg command anymore. Here is the fix you need to apply : Uninstall the package if installed Connect to the console Execute the following command to uninstall the previous package: rm -rf /volume1/@optware rm -rf /usr/lib/ipkg Install the package again Reboot #1

After upgrading your DSM to the 4 version, you should get your ipkg broken. In order to get anew your ipkg up and running, simply edit the file /root/.profile Edit the line starting with PATH= and add the following directly after PATH= : /opt/bin:/opt/sbin: Disconnect from your ssh session and reconnect. Enjoy ! #1

Recently my 'nmap' failed to work after updating DSM to 3.2 or upgrading some packages from ipkg : "nmap: error while loading shared libraries: liblua.so: cannot open shared object file : No such file or directory" I fixed the issue by installing the 'lua' package: > ipkg install lua #1

ipkg dnsmasq In /opt/etc/dnsmasq.conf , modify the path where dhcp lease file is saved: dhcp-leasefile=/opt/var/dnsmasq/dnsmasq.leases

After installing coreutils with ipkg , lots of system commands will be used from /opt/bin instead of /bin . Most are working fine but some should be reverted. For example uptime seems completly broken and ls doesn't use color anymore. I've fixed this issue with the following commands: ln -sf /bin/ls /opt/bin/ls ln -sf /usr/bin/uptime /opt/bin/uptime

(Took on a DS211+) /usr/syno/etc/rc.d link to /usr/syno/etc.defaults/rc.d -> synology standard applications /usr/local/etc/rc.d -> synology standard packages (*.spk) /opt/etc/init.d -> optware applications (ipkg) /etc/init.d -> linux standard applications

Find out your processor version : cat /proc/cpuinfo Processor : Feroceon 88FR131 rev 1 (v5l) BogoMIPS : 1589.24 Features : swp half thumb fastmult edsp CPU implementer : 0x56 CPU architecture: 5TE CPU variant : 0x2 CPU part : 0x131 CPU revision : 1 Hardware : Synology 6282 board Revision : 0000 Serial : 0000000000000000 The Feroceon 88FR131 processor is also known as Marvel 6282 Installation of ipkg is done with the following steps : cd /tmp wget http://wizjos.endofinternet.net/synology/archief/syno-mvkw-bootstrap_1.2-7_arm-ds111.xsh sh syno-mvkw-bootstrap_1.2-7_arm-ds111.xsh Credit : 1 2