Installation

Hi all,

I started off with a 1.3b11 image dropped directly onto a CF card for my ALIX board - and with this setup, exec.php could be used to write persistent changes to the filesystem and to the m0n0wall software itself.

I've just recently updated to 1.3b13 via the Web UI, and now m0n0wall is all extracted from a file on the CF card, meaning that any changes are lost on reboot.

The problem I had in 1.3b11 now seems to be fixed in 1.3b13, so it's not especially important - but I was intrigued to notice the difference.

Was this a change to the way that m0n0wall is packaged between these two versions, or is the difference due to having performed a web-based upgrade rather than taking out the CF card and dropping on a new image?

Cheers,

stuart

There is no difference between 1.3b11 and 1.3b13 in that respect, and I don't know why you think changes made through exec.php in the (in-memory) root file system would have been preserved over a reboot in 1.3b11 - because unless you did something extraordinary, they most certainly weren't. m0n0wall has used an MFS for its root file system since the very first release in 2003.