[GRLUG] Maintaining Embedded systems?

[L. V. Lammert]

Working with one of the new LG NAS boxes, the firmware mod adding ssh
addess (with dropbear) is sweet!

Unfortunately, I have tried to tweak a few other things, and find that,
for example:

1) Editing crontab is not possible [editing/saving produces no change]
2) The init script seems to get 'overwritten' after boot (e.g. I changed
the name on the front panel display, but it gets changed BACK in about a
minute).

Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
tmpfs                  62M     0   62M   0% /lib/init/rw
varrun                 62M  448K   62M   1% /var/run
varlock                62M     0   62M   0% /var/lock
udev                   10M   80K   10M   1% /dev
rootfs                9.2G  582M  8.2G   7% /
/dev/md2              578G  198M  578G   1% /mnt/disk/volume1

It seems like there might be a difference between the 'accessible' file
system and the 'running' system, but there does not seem to be any trace
of that (e.g. /var/run is only log files) visible??

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

	Lee

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