New features to curcfg_tool [Failure]
Sunday, October 19. 2014
The original post about curcfg_tool.
So I decided to add couple of new features to my tool. However, neither of of them work. 
Asiantuntijakaveri-blog introduced hack to run commands on boot: Persistent customizations to Huawei B593u with stock firmware. I added a feature to do that:
./curcfg_tool -rc "update-westerneurope.huaweidevice.com ; /upgflash/init.d/rc.local" -w
The flaw is in the httpupg-command startup. It takes the server address from curcfg.xml, but it doesn't escape it properly. This makes it possible to piggy-back any command on it. The thing is, that in my B593, the automatic firmware upgrade does not run automatically. I can go trigger it manually. At that point it runs my script I created at /upgflash/init.d/rc.local. My hope was, that system would run it automatically on bootup, but it doesn't.
Another thing I added was NTP-server change. I don't know where the list comes from, in my case it is completely ridiculous. However, the source for information is not from curcfg.xml. For example:
./curcfg_tool -ntp1 ntp.dnainternet.fi -ntp2 fi.pool.ntp.org -w
... doesn't change anything. The new servers don't appear at the list in GUI, nor the system doesn't update time from them.
Crap! Both attempts failed miserably. Please drop me a comment if you have anything to add to those ones.
