trouble getting services-start to work

[bigjohns97]

Just a nix noob here trying to learn the ways of the command line, I had previously had this small script working that would enable the 252 option of dhcp to keep my windows 7 box from always searching for a proxy address and now i have updated to the newest beta of the merlin build and it doesn't seem to be working anymore.

#!/bin/sh
echo "dhcp-option=lan,252,"\n"" >> /tmp/etc/dnsmasq.conf
killall dnsmasq
dnsmasq -c 1500 --log-async -n

I reboot my router and check the dnsmasq.conf and the dhcp option isn't in there.
is this a possible permission issue since the script was built with a previous version of firmware?

 

[RMerlin]

Why not use a custom config file instead? The firmware will automatically do everything for you.

Enable JFFS, then create /jffs/configs/dnsmasq.conf.add, with just the line you wish to add. The firmware will automatically append it to the generated dnsmasq.conf each time it creates it, before starting dnsmasq.

 

[bigjohns97]

Well crap, aren't i glad i started this thread, that is way simpler.

thanks rmerlin!

Is there somewhere i could look to find all of these tricks i might be missing out on?

 

[RMerlin]

Well crap, aren't i glad i started this thread, that is way simpler.

thanks rmerlin!

Is there somewhere i could look to find all of these tricks i might be missing out on?

The README included with the firmware actually contains information on every feature/changes done to the firmware vs the original FW. The Wiki on Github also contains various tutorials and tricks (see the sticky post in this forum).

 

[bigjohns97]

Is that what those are for?

Pretty cool stuff never had a router with this kind of power, per ip network stats is pretty cool as well.

 

[RMerlin]

Is that what those are for?

Pretty cool stuff never had a router with this kind of power, per ip network stats is pretty cool as well.

While we've had fairly advanced firmwares for years with Tomato and DD-WRT, the RT-N66U is probably the router that truly unlocked that potential, thanks to its fast CPU and large amount of both flash and RAM.