Changes to /etc files revert changes after reboot

yeahya · 11-22-2010, 08:03 PM

I've been messing around with a Verizon Hub trying to see if I can get it to register with my Asterisk server. I have been able to telnet into the phone with the root username. I can change files in every other folder on the device except in the /etc folder. I have tried mounting many different ways, changing file permissions but everytime I change the file and reboot it goes back to its default configuration. Any help would be appreciated.

kbp · 11-22-2010, 08:14 PM

I have no idea what a Verizon Hub is but maybe some of the files under /etc are being populated at boot from an archive, take a look at everything that runs at startup and you may find something -

/etc/rc.d/init.d/*
/etc/rc.local
/etc/rc.sysinit

cheers

michaelk · 11-22-2010, 08:42 PM

I would assume that the operating system is running from RAM. So no changes are actually made until you write them back to the EPROM device. I no nothing about the phone so I can't help but it might be a mountable device.