OpenWRT on Asus WL-500gP: Command and Path Reference

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console commands

COMMAND                                     DESCRIPTION
ipkg package manager (update list status install)
logread display entries from log files
nvram show display nvram values
nvram set wl0_radio=0; wifi turn radio off
nvram set wl0_radio=1; wifi turn radio on
logread view system log, all logs

perform basic tasks by command path reference

restart network

/etc/init.d/S40network restart

search for files or folders

find / -name $1 -print

system logs

syslogd is started on startup. You can read it with 'logread'.

logread
logread -f

There are two options for where to send the logging output: (1) to a local file stored in RAM, (2) to a remote system. The local file option is very easy but because it is stored in RAM it will go away whenever the router reboots.

Enable remote logging:

nvram set log_ipaddr=<your syslogd ip>
nvram commit

To run syslogd and klogd

vi /etc/inittab

add the following lines:

::respawn:/sbin/syslogd -n
::respawn:/sbin/klogd -n

Tells syslogd to write the log file to /var/log/messages

/var is linked to /tmp but we may need to create /var/log at boot time

vi /etc/init.d/rcS

add the following line:

mkdir /var/log