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      thinair
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      php status_service.php showed up oncein a couple minutes, aside from that, nothing else but mini_httpd.  And that was from SSH.

      Nelson Papel

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        sullrich
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        @thinair:

        php status_service.php showed up oncein a couple minutes, aside from that, nothing else but mini_httpd.  And that was from SSH.

        Hrm.  Very strange.

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          thinair
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          It the hdd activity light starts flashing often again, I'll retry those commands and post the results.

          As a note, it didn't seem to matter if my connection was idle or active either.

          Nelson Papel

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            ZGamer
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            when in doubt reboot;). How long after you reboot does it do this?

            Memory glitch??…it's a guess.

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              Cojo
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              I have the same problem. The HDD activity flashes all the time. And it starts right after boot.
              I use Beta 3 and have no extra packages installed.

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                hoba
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                what's your amount of ram?

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                  Cojo
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                  I have 256Mb of ram.

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                    Criggie
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                    @Cojo:

                    I have the same problem. The HDD activity flashes all the time. And it starts right after boot.
                    I use Beta 3 and have no extra packages installed.

                    I had a similar problem ages ago with a 0.8 series.  Turned out that the firewall couldn't resolve the ntp server address because the dns servers were not right/reachable.

                    So my advice is just search for anything thats wrong.

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                      Criggie
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                      @thinair:

                      • Will this be an issue when I move to a CF card?

                      Apparently you can tell the system to mount the CF card r/o and only mount it r/w while a config change happens.

                      To do that you put the single word wrap into /etc/platform

                      echo wrap > /etc/platform

                      But that made no difference for me even after a restart.

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                        hoba
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                        it's not "wrap" anymore, it was changed to "embedded" some time ago

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                          Criggie
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                          @hoba:

                          it's not "wrap" anymore, it was changed to "embedded" some time ago

                          Marvellous thank you.  How do I mount / rw for a bit if I want to change stuff?
                            mount / -o remount,rw
                          doesn't do it.  (yeah I'm a linux hoe)

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                            hoba
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                            /etc/rc.conf_mount_rw
                            /etc/rc.conf_mount_ro

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                              sullrich
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                              Use Diagnostics -> Edit file from the webConfigurator, it does this automatically when you save the file.

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