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  • Apache doesn’t write to /var/tmp

    I had a really strange problem, I was writing a tiny Python script to learn about Python and it was writing to /var/tmp. Only problem was the file never turned up. This script was run from within Apache 2 on Fedora 18. The file I was trying to create was “webhook_current_json_request.json“. Turns out the problem… read more…

    Apache doesn’t write to /var/tmp

  • Scheduling a task in Open Media Vault

    I need to run some scripts every night to move some files around in OMV. I want something that simple and easy to maintain and more or less stock standard. There are probably many variations on how this could be done but this is how I chose to do it. Before we start it is… read more…

  • DNS problems, email notifications not being sent

    I had a working Open Media Vault system with notifications going out and then it stopped. OMV runs on Debian. In the log I started seeing: The actual error was: postfix/error[1443]: 1D96741676: to=<joe.blogs@domain.com>, relay=none, delay=175894, delays=175853/41/0/0.24, dsn=4.4.3, status=deferred (delivery temporarily suspended: Host or domain name not found. Name service error for name=send.xtra.co.nz type=MX: Host not… read more…

  • Enabling SSH access to Debian live USB

    This is just a short post describing how you can USB boot from a Debian Live USB key and from this enable SSH access to the box. I do this often and it can be quite handy. First create the USB key using the instructions in the post Create a Debian Live USB flash drive.… read more…

    Enabling SSH access to Debian live USB

  • Create a single mirror disk for a RAID1 array

    I have a problem, I have a 3TB drive which has all my data on it but I need to move to a new RAID solution using Open Media Vault, OMV. I want to set up a mirrored, RAID1, 3TB array so will need two 3TB drives. I plan to use my current 3TB drive… read more…

  • Setting up a Windows shared drive

    This post is about setting up a Windows share for OMV. This should be a straight forward exercise but there are a few gotchas that mean it doesn’t always work the first time. This post describes the process pretty much from the start because as with other things if you don’t do things correctly right… read more…

  • Access contents on a single disk from a Debian mirror array

    I am setting up an Open Media Vault, OMV, NAS box for my home storage requirements, detailed in the post Installing Open Media Vault. I don’t have the resources to setup a full RAID 5 array, this would require a box with space for 3 drives plus which I would actually need to purchase 3… read more…

    Access contents on a single disk from a Debian mirror array

  • Installing Open Media Vault

    OMV doesn’t have a backup function which is a problem. Given it is relatively straight forward to setup OMV one option is to simply set it up again. I really don’t want to do that so the only other comprehensive option is to backup the system disk. The problem is that there isn’t any free,… read more…

    Installing Open Media Vault

  • Wipe a RAID disk

    If for some reason you have a disk which used to be in a software RAID and you need to add it back into OMV then OMV will still recognize it as a RAID disk, even if you have reformatted it. In my case I had a disk that was removed from the array for… read more…

  • Create a Debian Live USB flash drive

    There are many sites that describe how to do this, but some techniques just didn’t work for me and many required you to do it from Linux which also doesn’t work for me. This is what worked for me on Windows 10. 1. Insert you key into your Windows PC 2. Though this may not… read more…

    Create a Debian Live USB flash drive