Hi John,
AFAIK, The Nokias have hard disks, not flash memory.
I believe the / filesystem is read only, which is why it is safe to turn
it off. I have put stuff in /var without any problems, also /log should
be fine to write to.
Regarding your FTP question, it might be worth looking into SSH.
I tar up my conf directory & push it over to a safe place from cron
on a daily basis, saved by ass last week when the root disk went!
I don't have a management module on Nokia's, only FW modules, so I have
only done this on Solaris.
I mainly use SSH on the Nokias to log onto them remotely.
Phil
<snip>
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...
</snip>
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