Odd logging filenames - OK?

My Vera3 UI5 isn’t all that stable, seems to work for a while, then stop. Sometimes it’ll start working again magically, sometimes it’ll require a unplug/plug cycle.

I have logging set up to log to a USB thumbdrive.
I decided to SSH in and see what I could find in the logs, but it looks like the log filenames don’t match what I’ve found in the docs.

Mount shows the following:

/dev/sda1 on /tmp/log/cmh type ext3 (ro,noatime,nodiratime,errors=continue,barrier=0,data=ordered)

(should that be ro??)

However, nothing’s being written to cmh, it all lives a level up…

root@MiOS_30010480:/tmp# ls -altr
drwxr-xr-x    1 root     root             0 Feb 18 16:51 ..
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root            40 Mar 20 17:48 overlay
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root           295 Mar 20 17:48 log.platform_init
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root            23 Mar 20 17:48 TZ
drwxr-xr-x    3 root     root            60 Mar 20 17:48 usr
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root            40 Mar 20 17:48 opkg-lists
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          5507 Mar 20 17:48 log.fix_datetime
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root            60 Mar 20 17:48 alerts
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root            20 Mar 20 17:48 .mios.squashfs_mounted
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root             0 Mar 20 17:48 dhcp.leases
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          2227 Mar 20 17:48 log.Provision
drwx------    2 root     root            80 Mar 20 17:48 .uci
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root           100 Mar 20 17:48 state
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root             2 Mar 20 17:48 recover_switch_mode
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root            51 Mar 20 17:49 resolv.conf.auto
drwxr-xr-x    3 root     root            60 Mar 20 17:49 spool
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root           741 Mar 20 17:49 log.freshinstall
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          1502 Mar 20 17:49 log.RouterMode
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root            21 Mar 20 17:49 log.SetupRemoteAccess
drwx------    3 root     root            60 Mar 20 17:49 lib
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          1208 Mar 20 17:49 log.opkg
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          5964 Mar 20 17:49 log.mios_firmware
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root            80 Mar 20 17:49 lock
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root            40 Mar 20 17:49 buffer
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root           456 Mar 20 17:49 log.check_internet
drwxr-xr-x    4 root     root           120 Mar 20 17:49 log
drwxr-xr-x    4 root     root           360 Mar 20 17:49 run
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root            13 Mar 20 17:49 nm_ip_last
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root            32 Mar 20 17:49 resolv.conf
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root             1 Mar 20 17:49 ip_mode
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root             0 Mar 20 17:49 log.mios_services
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          2174 Mar 20 17:49 log.Report_AP
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root            93 Mar 20 17:49 streaming.hreadable
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root             0 Mar 20 17:49 3482forwarded.lock
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root            44 Mar 20 17:50 log.cmh-ra-daemon
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root             2 Mar 20 17:50 .cmh-ra-sleep_time
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root            11 Mar 20 17:50 .cmh-ra-connected
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          4256 Mar 20 18:49 log.Init-NetworkMonitor
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root            13 Mar 20 19:05 ip_wan
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root            12 Mar 20 19:05 ip_lan
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         21986 Mar 21 17:51 log.cmh_PnP.gz
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root            14 Mar 22 05:49 lastip
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root            11 Mar 22 05:49 .time_synced
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root            11 Mar 22 05:51 logrotate_timestamp
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        141183 Mar 22 05:51 log.LuaUPnP.gz
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root             0 Mar 22 11:03 log.no_internet
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root           142 Mar 22 11:03 log.sysinfo
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          1294 Mar 22 11:03 log.upgrade
drwxr-xr-x    2 nobody   nogroup         40 Mar 22 11:26 pnp.lock
-rw-r--r--    1 nobody   nogroup     105144 Mar 22 11:26 log.cmh_PnP
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root           754 Mar 22 11:33 log.Init-LuaUPnP
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          1453 Mar 22 11:33 log.Fix_HomeID
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root             0 Mar 22 11:33 server_backup
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         50260 Mar 22 11:33 luaupnp.xml
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root             1 Mar 22 11:33 zwave_state
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          5478 Mar 22 11:33 log.lighttpd_error
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        127654 Mar 22 11:33 log.cmh-ra-keepalive
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          3611 Mar 22 11:33 log.proxy.sh
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root             0 Mar 22 11:34 usb.logging
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        173747 Mar 22 11:34 log.Rotate_Logs
drwxrwxrwt   15 root     root          1240 Mar 22 11:34 .
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        776171 Mar 22 11:34 log.LuaUPnP

Something else that seems odd - /etc/fstab is a symlink to /tmp/fstab, which doesn’t exist.

I’ve put some time into adding all my devices and setting up rules, I’d hate to have to re-do it all from scratch.

Is the above correct? (sure seems not). Any ideas how to go about fixing it?

Yep, same thing here: fstab is a dead system symlink runing Ui7x.388

I read somewhere that fstab fonctionality can be superseded by udev… but someone who knows what he’s doing with mounts would also clean stuff up, right??