[GRLUG] Maintaining Embedded systems?

[Michael Mol]

On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 12:37 PM, L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:
> 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.

Useful information would include the output of:

lspci
lsmod
lsusb
cat /proc/cpuinfo
find /sys
zcat /proc/config.gz # May not be there. Nice if it is, though.
cat /proc/mounts
cat /proc/cmdline

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