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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>Don’t create it into /var/lib. Instead, create it somewhere in /etc.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'>If for some reason you don’t want to modify your daemon, then create a link from /var/lib to a persistent location in /etc before you launch your daemon in your init.d script.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> openwrt-devel [mailto:openwrt-devel-bounces@lists.openwrt.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Antonio Gómez Soto<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, February 06, 2015 7:27 AM<br><b>To:</b> openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org<br><b>Subject:</b> [OpenWrt-Devel] Porting package, need permanent storage<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Hi,<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>I am porting a software package to openwrt. It's a daemon which runs in the background.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Problem is, this daemon spontaneously creates a file in /var/lib. It's a one line ascii<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>file, but it needs to be preserved across reboots.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>How do I accomplish that? I know about UCI, but I think that populates nvram<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>on service restart, and I can't have that. This daemon runs, and just suddenly<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>creates that file, and it needs to stay there forever.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks for any pointers,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Antonio<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></body></html>