Hello!

I've successfully installed experimental OpenWRT on two WRT54Gs here.
Kudos to all the developers --- this thing rocks!

Now some bugs and proposed fixes:

(1)
I use PPPoE to connect to my ISP.
When pppd creates /tmp/resolv.conf, it does so with permissions 600,
and this is bad, because dnsmasq drops privileges to nobody and fails to read this file.

I put
===cut===
touch /tmp/resolv.conf
chmod 644 /tmp/resolv.conf
===cut===

in my /etc/init.d/S10boot script to fix this.

(2)
NTP client has to be started after PPPoE starts.
So I had to make PPPoE start earlier in the boot up:
mv S50pppoe S45pppoe

(3)
A rewritten version of S50ntpclient,
that uses the ntp_server NVRAM variables:
===cut===
#!/bin/sh

[ "$(nvram get ntp_enable)" = "1" ] || exit 0

NTP_SERVER=$(nvram get ntp_server)
NTP_SERVER=${NTP_SERVER:-pool.ntp.org}

/usr/sbin/ntpclient -s -h $NTP_SERVER
===cut===

(4)
For some reason, I was unable to use passwd
to change my password; it complained
about not being able to update or something.
I had to copy an old /etc/passwd
to use ssh.  Anybody seen this problem?

Thanks,
Steve

I've seen the passwd update problem immediately after updating -- It goes away after
the first reboot.  I've always attributed it to the jffs2 firstboot stuff.
--
Dale

Talking about permissions: /tmp comes chmod'd 755, which makes it impossible for non-root apps to create temp files (I had strange problems after I coerced Asterisk to run as non-privileged user). I'd recommend to change the permissions to 777.

Enzo

strange.

jffs2 image from today cvs:
drwxrwxrwt    4 root     root          140 Jan  1 00:01 tmp

I would remove S45ntpclient and issue ntpclient just after the ppp link gets up.
Like this you don't need to create a cronjob for regular updating either.
(I am assuming that you are redialling regularly)

To do this create a file /etc/ppp/ip-up with this content:

#!/bin/sh
# This is /etc/ppp/ip-up
# please do: chmod a+x /etc/ppp/ip-up

PATH=/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin
export PATH

# These variables are for the use of the scripts
PPP_IFACE="$1"
PPP_TTY="$2"
PPP_SPEED="$3"
PPP_LOCAL="$4"
PPP_REMOTE="$5"
PPP_IPPARAM="$6"
export PPP_IFACE PPP_TTY PPP_SPEED PPP_LOCAL PPP_REMOTE PPP_IPPARAM

# update hostname
# ez-ipupdate -s servername_xyz -S dyndns -u zoo:zoodyn -h hostname_xyz -a $PPP_LOCAL

# Set time
ntpclient -c 1 -s -h pool.ntp.org