As I build more and more Pi-based systems, I find the need to add management scripts for accessing SSH, OpenVPN, and all kinds of other tools. This leads me to version 4 of the CloudFlare Dynamic DNS AutoIP updater script.…
An OMV server running OMV 3 (Erasmus) may experience a loss of wifi (wlan0) due to drivers being removed from the backports package. Run the code below to download the broadcom wifi controller drivers and re-enable wifi (wlan0) (from OMV…
About Boot Mode The Raspberry Pi 3 can now be booted from a compatible USB drive. It works pretty well, but there are no noticeable differences in speed between a good SD card and a good USB drive. Primarily, cost…
While updating my RPi for a Cloudflare auto-ip-updater script, I ran into an issue where the dig command couldn’t be found. Also, the dnsutils package containing dig was not in the Raspbian repository. So, you can easily replace the dnsutils…
I previously created a RPi3 OMV server to share some pictures and movies across the network. But I configured the underlying Debian to check for updates outside of OMV, which means it probably upgraded to Debian 8 Jessie instead of…
Before, I had written about a CloudFlare auto-ip-updating script, but it required a lot of user input and a lot of user effort. Luckily, or not, I crashed my OMV server, and I think an error ate up my PiVPN…
Did you ever get this code while using FreeFileSync: “Windows Error Code 1314: A required privilege is not held by the client.“? I did. Many times. I thought it was a Linux file permission error on my Raspberry Pi 3…
The following is an OpenVPN autologin script for my portable Raspberry Pi Kodi media center. It starts an OpenVPN connection on boot. Dependencies The Expect package A folder containing an OpenVPN configuration file A folder for the script (I…
While working on my Raspberry Pi, I got this error after SSHing in: Could not chdir to home directory : No such file or directory The benefit of a home directory is that commands are logged, so that the next time…
The Raspberry Pi 2 (and 3) apparently has a problem with mounting USB drives at boot. This is probably due to the slow spin-up speed of HDD-based externals and the relatively fast boot of the Pi. How to fix a…