I have a question about the volatility of data on a Nokia box. I know that 
there are files that should only be edited from the Web-based GUI, such as 
the /etc/hosts. But there are many things that I wish to do that are not 
covered by the Web-GUI.

For example, I have created a shell script that does an 'fw logswitch old' 
followed by an 'fw -i old.log -o fwlog.txt' (this copies the current log to 
the old.log file, starts a new, blank log and then exports the old.log to a 
readable, flat ascii file). I created a directory /opt/scripts and saved 
the shell script there. I then wrote a crontab file (in the same directory) 
to run this script regularly during the middle of the night, and added the 
crontab file to the 'root' crontab.

Here's my question: When I reboot the Nokia will my scripts and directory 
disappear? Is everything in flash memory, or are just critical system files 
in flash memory, so that they (and only they) are automatically regenerated 
whenever the system is rebooted?

One more question. Is there a command-line, ftp client available on the 
Nokia 330 that will do a put to a specific directory on an ftp server? It's 
not a big deal to log onto the Nokia every so often and run the interactive 
ftp client, but I would really like to add this to my shell script, as it's 
much easier to document something that happens automatically, than it is to 
document the step-by-step process of logging on to the Nokia, cd'ing to the 
correct directory, starting ftp, yada,yada,yada...

Thanks,
John Banta 



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