DSM-G600, DNS-3xx and NSA-220 Hack Forum

kennedy101 mentioned the funplug script addition to mount a second disk. Right now only the first disk is being mounted. Sorry for taking so long to read the thread

Hi all,
Great thought with ready-to-go Debian image, thx gentleman:)

I'm interested in utilizing it to reach NFS functionality to use my 2nd volume of DNS-323 as an external storage for my satellite set-top-box (IPBOX 900HD, vel Cube-Revo mini) as with the the unfs daemon I didn't have any success so far (constant "unknown nfs server failure 22" message on the client side while trying to mount exported volume, whereas a volume exported from Debian Etch PC VM was successfully mounted by the sat-box).
Eventually, I ended up with the following error on my NAS:

dns323:~# /etc/init.d/nfs-kernel-server start
Not starting NFS kernel daemon: no support in current kernel. (warning).
dns323:~#

and this was already after fixing modprobe (missing folder, as referred to earlier in this thread).

Please advise how to make NFS service work - frmw 1.05, btw.
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Mareque

Hi I tried to install your package and it worked well. I am using FF1.6 by the way.

I am quite rookie with linux....so I just played a bit with it. I want install subversion by following http://dns323.kood.org/howto:subversion process. However I got error for configuration script, which I am not able fix. Find the error log, the part below:

configure:2241: Configuring Subversion 1.5.2
configure:2254: creating config.nice
configure:2324: checking for gcc
configure:2340: found /usr/bin/gcc
configure:2351: result: gcc
configure:2589: checking for C compiler version
configure:2597: gcc --version >&5
gcc (GCC) 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)

configure:2601: $? = 0
configure:2608: gcc -v >&5
Using built-in specs.
Target: arm-linux-gnu
Configured with: ../src/configure -v --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,objc,obj-c++,treelang --prefix=/usr --enable-shared --with-system-zlib --libexecdir=/us
r/lib --without-included-gettext --enable-threads=posix --enable-nls --program-suffix=-4.1 --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-libstdcxx-debu
g --enable-mpfr --enable-checking=release arm-linux-gnu
Thread model: posix
gcc version 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)
configure:2612: $? = 0
configure:2619: gcc -V >&5
gcc: '-V' option must have argument
configure:2623: $? = 1
configure:2646: checking for C compiler default output file name
configure:2668: gcc    conftest.c  >&5
/usr/bin/ld: crt1.o: No such file: No such file or directory
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
configure:2672: $? = 1
configure:2710: result:

The installation supposes to work for Debian distribution I guess.

As minor taks I would like to be able to uninstall this package. Is there some simple way besides formatting?

Thanks for any suggestion. Cheers, X.

a newbie question. I used update-rc.d to add a rtorrent script that I want to have it running when the system boots up. It doesn't seems to get call at startup. Should it for chroot'd debian on DNS-323?
Thanks.

Hi,

I have been toying with a different approach over the last couple of days, and that is the 'best of both worlds' ie having your cake and eating it.

I have managed to get FFP working (not hard) and have etch installed, but not chroot. All I do is script the environment and then fire up the interesting applications only.

Last night I got apache2 and hellanzb working fine. I'll post a how too in a day or so (when i have time to write one). I have not checked the disk activity, but since I have never enabled etch completely, then i doubt that the logging etc... is functional. The only thing is that you need to remember to chroot your ssh whenever you wish to do something in etch, and then port it back to ffp in the form of a script prior to logging off.

Other major advantage (for me) is that ffp provides NFS. Being a linux house that is very interesting.
I find this little nas really fascinating, and getting into trouble from the other half cause playing too much with it.....

Toolbox - Can you post your question into a new thread please. you are off topic, and I'll answer you there

FYI: Screen doesnt work on etch (not running updated lenny), need to install library.

screen wouldnt work "out of the box" issued the following and the /dev/pty devices were working.

apt-get install libc6

Hi,

thanks for this package, which helped me installing Debian on my DNS-323. I have a little problem though, perhaps anyone can help or give a hint.

I have problems with the charset the Debian-installation uses. The pre-installed OS of the DNS-323 (I use 0.6) uses UTF8 as the charset, which I basically think is a very good idea. When I use the newly installed Linux (I upgraded to Lenny) and connect via SSH e.g, I see a corrupted filename. The same filename is correctly displayed when accessed via the "normal" way (Windows filebrowser, i.e. Samba).

Example: The file is named "testör.txt".

When accessed via SSH, it's shown as test??r.txt. This clearly indicates that the two (or more) characters, which unicode uses to encode special characters are shown as separate characters within the Linux-installation. Does anyone of you know how to fix this? I guess it must be a setting somewhere within the Debian-system - do you think so too?

Thanks,
airflow

Another general comment for the etch image. SU does not work out of the box. Not sure what I'm doing wrong but here's what I know. I created another user with adduser. I can login to root from a new putty session, and I can login as the new user from putty. But, I cannot login as the new user and THEN su to root. It fails as follows.

user@wheezy1:~$ su -
Password:
su: Authentication failure
Sorry.
user@wheezy1:~$


cat /var/log/auth.log
Jan  9 07:17:53 wheezy1 su[17339]: (pam_unix) authentication failure; logname= uid=1000 euid=1000 tty=ttyp0 ruser=user rhost=  user=root
Jan  9 07:17:55 wheezy1 su[17339]: pam_authenticate: Authentication failure
Jan  9 07:17:55 wheezy1 su[17339]: FAILED su for root by user


wheezy1:~# ls -l `which su`
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 24728 Feb 28  2007 /bin/su


WORK AROUND
sudo was not installed, but needed.


apt-get install sudo


edit /etc/sudoers to include permissions for new user to have root access. Follow these procedures.
http://www.gratisoft.us/sudo/sample.sudoers


After this I am now able to

user@wheezy1:/var$ sudo su root
wheezy1:/var#


I'm open to other suggestions to get su to work properly.

Anterus,

What RAID configuration have you got?

Here's a fun_plug that will chroot debian stored on a USB stick. I also added a seperate partition for torrent downloads. After using it the hard drives spin down while actively ssh'ing around the file structure and processing a torrent. It's not perfect since a real ffp-reloaded would put the entire kernel on the flash card, but it does save some hard drive wear and tear, reduce heat and conserve some power.

I'm lazy like most hackers. I certainly could have done a better job with variables and if/trap statements, but it works. I ended up enabling telnet and running one line at a time until i got all the bugs worked out.

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#!/bin/sh

#This revised fun_plug will load the linux root directory structure to a USB card.
#User is expected to undertand what is happening, at least what each command does.
#This is not like ffp-reloaded as it does NOT reload the kernel. The ramdisk that is created
#by the firmware is still present, and approx 16MB of the 64MB is used by the kernel.



#User must manually put the usb-storage.ko module in this directory.
#This allows the kernel to detect the flash cards and load them as devices.
#In my setup /dev/sdd1 was setup as swap. You must setup the flash cards partition
#and mkswap !BEFORE! running this ffp!
#In this script /dev/sdc1 is an ext2 partition I use for torrent space. /dev/sdc2 is
#where what WAS /mnt/HD_a2/linux resided. I MANUALLY copied this over before
#running this script.

insmod /mnt/HD_a2/linux/mod/usb-storage.ko

sleep 5
mkdir /mnt/usb-sdc1
mkdir /mnt/usb-sdc2

mount -t ext2 /dev/sdc1 /mnt/usb-sdc1
mount -t ext2 /dev/sdc2 /mnt/usb-sdc2

#Killing the swap space on the hard drives.
swapon /dev/sdd1
swapoff /dev/sda1
swapoff /dev/sdb1

#Edited fun_plug mounts
export DISK1=/mnt/HD_a2
export DISK2=/mnt/HD_b2
export TORRENT=/mnt/usb-sdc1
export USBROOT=/mnt/usb-sdc2
export DISTDIR=/mnt/usb-sdc2/linux
export USBTORRENT=/mnt/usb-sdc1

cd $USBROOT

mount --bind $DISK1 $DISTDIR$DISK1
mount --bind $DISK2 $DISTDIR$DISK2
mount --bind $TORRENT $DISTDIR$TORRENT
mount --bind / $DISTDIR/mnt/root
mount --bind /dev $DISTDIR/dev
mount --bind /sys  $DISTDIR/sys
mount --bind /sys/crfs $DISTDIR/sys/crfs
mount --bind /web $DISTDIR/web
mount --bind /proc $DISTDIR/proc

cp -f /proc/mounts $DISTDIR/etc/mtab
rm -f $DISTDIR/etc/fstab
touch $DISTDIR/etc/fstab
cp -f /etc/resolv.conf $DISTDIR/etc
hostname >$DISTDIR/etc/hostname
cp -f /etc/hosts $DISTDIR/etc


$DISTDIR/boot/chroot $DISTDIR /boot/linuxrc
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I used a 1GB stick I got at a trade show a few weeks ago. The DNS323 setup a 512 MB swap on each drive when it formatted them. I was happy that the total swap stayed about the same.

I'll commit to doing that within the month, probably sooner. Using the USB as a place to store torrents didnt work out at all - too many storage errors. I've since moved the install back to the hard drive and really need to rewrite the chroot scripts anyway. I'll make a generic script, with better comments before the end of February - again, probably be before that, but I hate to miss deadlines.

EDIT: If anyone has a working cross compile system I'd REALLY prefer to put these efforts into putting even the kernel onto the USB card. The ffp-reloaded kernel posted by fonz does NOT support B1 hardware. The sata support is a module, and this NEEDS to be in the kernel. Is anyone interested in compiling the kernel? All you'll need is the cross-compile system and you can use Fonz's .config with all the tweaks. If I can get my hands on this kernel then the instructions would possibly integrate reloading the kernel onto the flash and then doing a chroot.

At any rate, I'll work on a better script for chroot onto a USB.

Last edited by kennedy101 (2009-01-29 18:16:03)

I dont think it's the hub. No I/O errors in /var/log/messages (ensured syslogd was restarted since my script killed it) and no I/O or read/write errors seen in dmesg. Also, the storage errors were only present when I had more than 2 torrents running simultaneously. As long as it was one or two torrents then there were no storage errors.

I read in an older post that the method used for file storage on a usb stick was messy. In short it's a UDF (I think that was the acronym) that allowed for a certain percentage of sectors on the flash card to go bad. Basically it was never meant to have constant read/writes and would be prone to errors. I think if I use the USB for only swap and the linux directory I'll have better luck. I really do hope that the swap space can be used on the USB stick. I'll try it with both a swap partition and a swap file...