Bootstrap Synology DS215j DSM 5.x provisioner steps

ds215j_provisioner.md

Boostrap the Synology DS215j with optware, ipkg, and sudo

Inspired mostly from the Bootstrap DS215j blog post

Download & Install ipkg in a persistent manner

# Create a directory that won't get nuked during DSM security updates
mkdir /volume1/@optware
cd /volume1/@optware

# Download & configure ipkg
feed=http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/optware/cs08q1armel/cross/unstable
ipkg_name=`wget -qO- $feed/Packages | awk '/^Filename: ipkg-opt/ {print $2}'`
wget $feed/$ipkg_name
tar -xOvzf $ipkg_name ./data.tar.gz | tar -C / -xzvf -
mkdir -p /opt/etc/ipkg
echo "src cross $feed" > /opt/etc/ipkg/feeds.conf

# Move the extracted /opt files to our persistent optware directory & symlink /opt
mv /opt/* /volume1/@optware/
rm -r /opt
ln -s /volume1/@optware /opt

# Make ipkg available immediately to root
export PATH=/opt/sbin:/opt/bin:$PATH

Create a service script to recreate the symlink to persistent optware directory if needed at reboot

mkdir -p /usr/local/etc/rc.d/
wget -O /usr/local/etc/rc.d/optware.sh https://gist.githubusercontent.com/stevenhaddox/cead26111aea3fdcc9a5/raw/optware.sh
chmod 755 /usr/local/etc/rc.d/optware.sh

Setup sudo

ipkg install sudo
visudo
# Add the following line to visudo
# %wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL
%administrators ALL=(ALL) ALL

optware.sh

#!/bin/sh
#
# Optware setup
# Alternatives Optware Startup und Shutdown Script #/usr/local/etc/rc.d/optware.sh
#
case $1 in
start)
  [ ! -h /opt -a ! -d /opt ] && ln -s /volume1/@optware /opt
  for i in /opt/etc/init.d/S??* ;do
    # Ignore dangling symlinks (if any).
    [ ! -f "$i" ] && continue
    case "$i" in
      *.sh)
        # Source shell script for speed.
        (
          trap - INT QUIT TSTP
          set start
          . $i
        )
        ;;
      *)
        # No sh extension, so fork subprocess.
        $i start
        ;;
    esac
  done
  ;;
stop)
  for i in /opt/etc/init.d/S??* ;do
    # Ignore dangling symlinks (if any).
    [ ! -f "$i" ] && continue
    case "$i" in
      *.sh)
        # Source shell script for speed.
        (
                trap - INT QUIT TSTP
                set stop
               . $i
        )
        ;;
      *)
        # No sh extension, so fork subprocess.
        $i stop
        ;;
    esac
  done
  ;;
*)
  echo "Usage: $0 [start|stop]"
  ;;
esac

Other common packages:

ipkg install bison bzip2 ctags expat imagemagick libxml2 libxslt openvpn openssl readline tmux vim unzip wget which zlib

Works perfectly, @stevenhaddox thank you very much!

If I close the shell and again entry by SSH with no root user, command sudo isn't available, because export PATH=/opt/sbin:/opt/bin:$PATH is temporal for the session, to solve this i have created a .profile file in the home of this user /volume1/homes/myuser/ and I put the same code export PATH=/opt/sbin:/opt/bin:$PATH

I put this in the commentary if it can be useful to others.

works great, thank you!
just a note: you have to do ipkg update before ipkg install sudo

For me, to have persistent links to downloaded applications i had to edit /root/.profile and prepend "/opt/sbin:/opt/bin:" of PATH variable. It is what export command was supposed to do but it didn't work for me.

Thanks for the great instructions! I took them and adapted them for optware-ng in this gist https://gist.github.com/ffeldhaus/226f2c5743a7f631806d

Thanks a lot, it works for me!

To configure DS215j just go to Optware-ng and run the script for "ARMv7 EABI hardfloat". Then add export PATH=/opt/bin:/opt/sbin:$PATH to your .bashrc in your home directory so that ipkg is in your path. To add ipkg to the path of all users just put the export ... in file /etc/profile. Simple.