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How to disable auto-update
I prefer to update manually, is there a way to turn that feature off?
Thanks. Yes I saw that. The cron is running against the tmp/cro fn file. I was looking into just commenting out the line with the firmware in it and leaviing the one that emails the logs. That seems to work. However it still gets rebuilt on reboot. It does not get rebuilt from either /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root or /rom/var/spool/cron/crontabs/root. It all gets corrected on a reboot. It looks like they are doing this in the /etc/init.d/boot file. They probably have a hidden slice that it is rebuilt from on reboot or embed it in a command. It could be a simple one line command embedded in an executable to put it in. I am going to look a bit further. Worse case I might just try blocking the internet connection for a few minutes and see if it retrys.
I have just one line in there, thats why I suggested to delete it.
The read-only original file is in /rom/var/spool/cron/crontabs/root
17 04 * * * streamboost update_fmn; streamboost auto_upload; streamboost auto_update && streamboost restart
What we are changing is just overlay. When Orbi boots, / gets restored from /rom.Changing /rom permanently is more complicated and risky for people. So don't do it.
Thanks. I was not going into it any further than the other 2 files. The /rom file may clash with something they are updating so I will either just change the entry you mentioned or go the route of blocking the the connection at the time of execution. Commenting out that enttry should work as well as long as you don't reboot.