ttn & cleanup.txt

[wb2osz]

Is there some magic trick to running commands in "ttn" "and cleanup.txt?"

Numerous places mention it is possible to run commands during the boot up process by placing them in a file called "ttn" or "cleanup.txt" in the root directory of the SD card.

I've tried placing various commands in these files and just can't get them to run after a peper clip reset.

The SD card is recognized because files in "mp3" and "photos" directories are seen.

All file name characters are lower case. The command files have unix, not MSDOS, line separators. I've tried files that others have provided. I've tried various simple commands. e.g.

ls / > /mnt/sdcard/ls.txt

The 2G SD card was originally formated with FAT16. Reformatting it with FAT32 didn't help.

Navigation software is version 8.300.

 

[gerryc]

there are good info @ http://www.opentom.org

1. I have an sd card that has 'stand alone' tom player. I shove it in
and power on the tomtom. The tomtom becomes a stand-alone mp3 and video player.

It has a tomplayer boot file named 'ttsystem'.

There is an original 'ttsystem' bootfile in the internal 'drive'. But I noticed
the tomtom first looks for ttsystem from the 'external' drive.


2. when not using the above, my internal tomtom930 drive has the ff files:

cleanup.txt
inside this file has the line:
daemon|Tracer/mkel|

Tracer ---- a directory containing 'mkel'
mkel -- a script that installs the Even_logger program.


when I turn on the tomtom, it starts event logger in the background.

edit: I'm using 8.010 on the 930. I don't know if the 8.3 works the same way.