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      sullrich
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      Actually, do that from a SSH session.

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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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