The customized Asus firmware offers a lot of possibilites of expansion via the optware set of packages. This suite installs into /opt which may be mapped to internal HD or storage attached to the wl700ge.

I've tried to install a few of these including packages like mysql and PHP. These install fine, however won't run properly. After running them via strace, I discovered there is a reliance on the file /etc/TZ by many of the optware packages. Unfortunately with the custom firmware, you can't write to the /etc directory.

How hard would it be to make a new firmware that also includes a symbolic link from /TZ to /tmp/TZ? This could then further be linked to /opt/etc/TZ in much the same way as /etc/shells, for example, works now.
Thanks!