Synology DSM

IPKG for Synology DiskStations running Synology DSM

the GNU packages that I need most seriously on my Synology NAS

• http://Jochen.Hayek.name/wp/blog-en/2014/05/27/the-gnu-packages-that-i-need-most-seriously-on-my-synology-nas/

root@DiskStation $ ipkg list_installed
bash - A bourne style shell
coreutils - Bunch of heavyweight *nix core utilities
diffutils - contains gnu diff, cmp, sdiff and diff3 to display differences between and among text files
exif - A small command-line utility to show and change EXIF information in JPEG files.
file - Ubiquitous file identification utility.
findutils - File finding utilities
gcc - The GNU Compiler Collection.
gkrellmd - Gkrellm is a utility to display system stats (cpu, processes, memory,..) in a nice little window. (Server component)
glib - The GLib library of C routines.
psmisc - A set of some small useful utilities that use the proc filesystem.
less - Less file browser
make - examines files and runs commands necessary for compilation
nail - command-line email-client supporting POP3, IMAP, SMTP, ...
pkgconfig - Package configuration tool
rcs - The Revision Control System (RCS) manages multiple revisions of files.
rsync - fast remote file copy program (like rcp)
util-linux - A suite of essential utilities for any Linux system.
vim - Yet another version of the vi editor.
wget - A network utility to retrieve files from the Web
xpdf - Various PDF tools (no support for X11 compiled in)
# a few ones get installed "indirectly"
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utilities to get started and stopped automatically

Resp. scripts live in /usr/syno/etc/rc.d/ .

• /opt/sbin/gkrellmd --detach --pidfile $HOME/var/run/gkrellmd.pid

forum.synology.com/wiki and interesting / important articles

• http://forum.synology.com/wiki
• http://forum.synology.com/enu/viewtopic.php?p=228225 – Jeremie explains how to ask for the creation of an account on forum.synology.com/wiki

forum.synology.com/wiki – articles I imported from there

That wiki looks a little abandoned, and I wanted to be able to update some details, that's why I imported these articles.

• How to enable NFS on the Synology Server
• Overview on modifying the Synology Server, bootstrap, ipkg etc

www.synology-wiki.de and interesting / important articles

• http://www.synology-wiki.de
• http://www.synology-wiki.de/index.php/NFS-Konfiguration – usermod etc
• http://www.synology-wiki.de/index.php/Ssh_mit_Zertifikaten_absichern – how to disable PasswordAuthentication with sshd – etc
• http://www.synology-wiki.de/index.php/Welchen_Prozessortyp_besitzt_mein_System%3F