OCG overwriting changes in /etc/ppp/options upon reboot

[Philip Lombardi]

I am using a custom /etc/ppp/options file and every time I reboot the OCG the file seems to be replaced with the stock file provided by Multi-Tech. Not sure what is going on here? All the other files are being preserved, including custom connect and chat scripts in /etc/ppp/peers. I am using one of the pre-built full CoreCDP 2.2 images provided on this site.

Any ideas?

Cheers,
Phil

[Bryan Tran]

Hi Phil,

I could not duplicate the problem. Pls, give steps as how to duplicate the problem.

Regards,

BT

[Philip Lombardi]

Bryan,

I believe our two companies have an NDA in place. I am going to check that here with my boss, but if that is true I can provide you the script I am developing that is causing the problems.

Would that work?
Phil

• This reply was modified 10 years, 9 months ago by Darrik Spaude.

[Bryan Tran]

Hi Phil,

You can create a new case in our online support portal (http://www.multitech.com/en_US/) and then attach your script in the case. However, another simple test that you can do is that – Reload the stock firmware on the device, then go into the /etc/ppp/options, modify, save it and then reboot and see if your changes is still retained after reboot.

If it is then, your script must do something that caused the /etc/ppp/options reloaded with stock version.

Regards,

BT

[Darrik Spaude]

Case created.

[Jesse Gilles]

Phil,

Are you possibly removing /etc/ppp/options and recreating it? It is normally a soft link to /var/config/ppp/options. The start up scripts will check that /etc/ppp/options is a link to /var/config and if it isn’t, it will remove it and relink to /var/config. This is done so that PPP settings (and user/password, network settings) can be preserved when flashing the root filesystem.

Jesse

[Philip Lombardi]

That might be the problem… I will check once I have a moment.

By the way, is there a way to flash so nothing is preserved? I find that behavior kind of annoying when I am running through a QA cycle and want to bring the device to a virgin state.

• This reply was modified 10 years, 9 months ago by Philip Lombardi.

[Jesse Gilles]

You can wipe all files in /var/config and then it will put everything back to defaults after reboot. It will still ensure that the files it is managing are links to files in /var/config.

rm -rf /var/config/*
reboot

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