IP-logger - Part 2: Prepare OpenWRT

All pages in this serie:

• IP-logger - Part 1: Create a Pushbullet account and get an Access Token
• IP-logger - Part 2: Prepare OpenWRT
• IP-logger - Part 3: create directory, copy scrip, edit script, test script
• IP-logger - Part 4: Adding cronjob to crontab
• IP-logger - Part 5: Done!
• IP-logger - Part 6: Changelog

Steps on this page:

When you are on SSH execute the following 2 commands:

/etc/init.d/cron start

/etc/init.d/cron enable

We have to refresh the package lists to be able to find and install the packages we'll need.

To refresh the package execute the following command on SSH:

opkg update

While Busybox on OpenWRT provide a simple 1 binairy shell the script needs some better implementation of the shell which bash can provide. Also for proper processing of the data to the Pushbullet servers we will need curl.

To install both bash and curl execute the following command on SSH:

opkg install bash curl

Proceed to IP-logger - Part 3: create directory, copy scrip, edit script, test script.