The /var/etc/rc.local file is an excellent place to have IPSO run things
at startup, although I realize that it is not suitable for what you are
doing.
However, I would like to let you know that /var/admin is a much better
place to keep your work, or even a subdirectory there. This is because you
have the ability to use Backup and Restore to backup the contents of your
home directory and I think that you would like to save your work.
I don't know of any technical reason why you should avoid /opt/sub-dir
at this point-in-time, but Nokia cannot guarantee that this will not change.
I *can* guarantee that your files will always be safe in /var/admin
--- Jerald Josephs
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From: "Samuel Wuethrich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'John Banta'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2000 9:03 AM
Subject: RE: [FW1] Modifying Nokia Files
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> I've successfully created a directory under /opt/maintenance and put
> in a shell script doing some logswitch-stuff. Rebooting doesn't
> affect these (IPSO 3.1.4 and also 3.2).
> Nokia's installed ftp tool knows about .netrc, which could contain
> any macros, see 'man ftp'.
>
> sAM
>
> ~> I have a question about the volatility of data on a Nokia
> ~> box. I know that
> ~> there are files that should only be edited from the
> ~> Web-based GUI, such as
> ~> the /etc/hosts. But there are many things that I wish to do
> ~> that are not
> ~> covered by the Web-GUI.
> ~>
> ~> For example, I have created a shell script that does an 'fw
> ~> logswitch old'
> ~> followed by an 'fw -i old.log -o fwlog.txt' (this copies the
> ~> current log to
> ~> the old.log file, starts a new, blank log and then exports
> ~> the old.log to a
> ~> readable, flat ascii file). I created a directory
> ~> /opt/scripts and saved
> ~> the shell script there. I then wrote a crontab file (in the
> ~> same directory)
> ~> to run this script regularly during the middle of the night,
> ~> and added the
> ~> crontab file to the 'root' crontab.
> ~>
> ~> Here's my question: When I reboot the Nokia will my scripts
> ~> and directory
> ~> disappear? Is everything in flash memory, or are just
> ~> critical system files
> ~> in flash memory, so that they (and only they) are
> ~> automatically regenerated
> ~> whenever the system is rebooted?
> ~>
> ~> One more question. Is there a command-line, ftp client
> ~> available on the
> ~> Nokia 330 that will do a put to a specific directory on an
> ~> ftp server? It's
> ~> not a big deal to log onto the Nokia every so often and run
> ~> the interactive
> ~> ftp client, but I would really like to add this to my shell
> ~> script, as it's
> ~> much easier to document something that happens
> ~> automatically, than it is to
> ~> document the step-by-step process of logging on to the
> ~> Nokia, cd'ing to the
> ~> correct directory, starting ftp, yada,yada,yada...
> ~>
> ~> Thanks,
> ~> John Banta
> ~>
> ~>
> ~>
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