[Astlinux-users] Can't edit rc.conf

[Phil M. <ph...@mc...>]

It seems I lied when I said I could edit changes to rc.conf on a USB =
flash stick. I thought I had successfully done this but I just tried =
again without success.
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I tried reformatting the drive from scratch (using genkd and then =
rebooting as described on =
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/index.php?page=3DAstLinux%20Users%20Guide%2=
0Chapter%202 and on =
http://www.voipplanet.com/backgrounders/article.php/3646976).
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If I go to /mnt/kd using the web interface I see the error message

Warning: is_dir(): Stat failed for /mnt/kd/asterisk (errno=3D40 - Too =
many levels of symbolic links) in /stat/var/www/admin/dirphp_class.php =
on line 115

...and I can't find rc.conf anywhere (is it supposed to be in the root =
or in /etc?).

This is what I see in the root of the keydisk:
astdb           crontabs        lost+found      ssh
asterisk        dnsmasq.leases  monitor         tftpboot
cdr-csv         home            voicemail

If I edit rc.conf in /etc using the web interface (e.g. to uncomment =
INTIF) the changes don't persist past a reboot. (Yes, I did remember to =
make the filesystem read/write first, then save changes and reboot.) I =
tried with and without doing a "reload". I tried with and without the =
keydisk mounted. I tried using nano from the terminal instead of the web =
interface. I tried power cycling instead of rebooting. I tried =
reformatting the flash drive and the CF card. I searched the mailing =
list archive for a previous mention of this without success.

Every reboot takes a few mins, so this has all taken hours. Please tell =
me it gets easier than this eventually! I'm trying not to bother you all =
with dumb questions (after the flaming I got from my initial ones!) but =
it would really be much easier if there was some documentation around =
somewhere.

I'm off to try an earlier version of asterisk because I'm sure I had =
this working at one stage and I was using a different version initially.
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Phil McKerracher
www.mckerracher.net
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