Ds213+

Well, the title pretty much says what I want to do. Even if the DS213+ is on top of a living room cupboard, it’s still way to bright .. as I don’t need really need the LED, here’s a quick hack (the ID and the device is taken from the Synology Wiki) on how to disable it on each startup: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 #!/bin/sh case $1 in start) echo "Disabling Power LED" echo 6 > /dev/ttyS1 ;; esac Just place the file in /opt/etc/init.d/S01leds and the script is gonna turn the LED off during a boot/reboot.

Well, I’ve been moving stuff to my archive NAS, and in case anyone is wondering - the DS213+ actually nearly gets to the 1GE transmission limit… It’s near the CPU limit then anyhow, but … 😄

Well, I have a openvpn script on my DiskStation, and apparently the “normal” services (like the packages) start before optware (that’s where my openvpn client is located), it immidiatly starts downloading (which isn’t really that desired). So looking at the SABnzbd command line parameters there’s one option that looks like it’s what I want: -p–pauseStart in paused mode

My VPN provider isn’t being supported by the Synology VPN client (because they aren’t using the standard port 1194, instead 1195). After tinkering with the ovpn files the Synology VPN client uses to store the connection settings (and failing), I just installed openvpn with ipkg. However after tinkering around with the init-script provided by the openvpn ipkg from the NSLU2 feed, I got tired and just rewrote the damn thing: ...