Enabling Extended Attribute support in a Synology DiskStation DS212j
As small NAS devices go, the Synology DiskStation offerings are quite good. On the bang-for-the-buck scale, they rank well near the top, offering a diskless, 2-drive-capacity enclosure for right around $200 street price. I won't go into a litany of features here, and truth be told, Rosenthal & Rosenthal is not a Synology business partner, so I have no great axe to grind insofar as additional sales of these units is concerned. Detailed information on the hardware and software may be found on the net in various places. The focus of this post, however, is on getting support for EAs (extended attributes) on this device.
Egad! Why do people do their own web development?
WordPress 3.3 is now GA. Knowing better than to blindly upgrade without at least having a look at what may be not quite ready for prime time (though WP is quite good about reasonable beta cycles and such), I happened over to the WP fora to see what reports had been made (yes, I should have gone to the bugtracker, but I like to get a view from "on the ground," so to speak).
Configuring Squid Proxy on OS/2: Path adjustments
Following onto my post concerning web privacy, I wanted to produce some pointers concerning Squid configuration for web blocking. To do that, of course, I needed a working Squid configuration. Mine was sorely in need of an update. I'd been running 2.6 stable 14(?) for a long time, then upgraded to 3.0 stable 13. I recall that took me some time to get working, but still I suffered repeated crashes under heavy load, so as a result, I did what any other normal user would do: I turned it off.
Well, that's no solution, now is it? It's especially no solution if the goal is to be able to tell other people how to use it!
Rsync error 5 may be exactly what it says
I use (and love) rsync on a variety of platforms. On Windows, about the easiest implementation I've found is DeltaCopy.
Recently, though, I've been seeing a problem at a particular client running DeltaCopy, and only for one machine (which happens to be the box running the server component, as well. Wanting to rule out the obvious, I suggested he run a full chkdsk pass against his local drive. After that, we got a slightly different error message:
@ERROR: chdir failed
rsync error: error starting client-server protocol (code 5) at /home/lapo/packaging/rsync-3.0.4-1/src/rsync-3.0.4/main.c(1504) [sender=3.0.4]
Error starting client-server protocolRsync.exe returned an error. Will try again. This is retry number 1 of 5
Well...
Various sources on the net point to bad passwords, tabs in command lines, and such. In fact, I originally suspected a bad password...until I went looking.
All of the jobs for this machine back up to an eSATA-connected RAID volume. I have one directory for each day of the week located under the root of the volume. Well, upon browsing the volume's contents, I found that all of my backup directories (virtual directories, in DeltaCopy-speak) were gone! So, apparently, chdir did indeed fail, as there was no target directory available.
I re-created all of the daily directories, set it off manually, and it is happily backing up as I write this.
Go figure.