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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
              last edited by

              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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