here come the using-it questions #1

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Topic: here come the using-it questions #1
started by: dslrgm

Posted by dslrgm on Sep. 05 2007,16:14

I have installed Frugal on hda1, swap is hda2 and home is hda3

Since I have a cheatcode of home=hda3, do I remove from .filetool.lst the line:

home/dsl/

Afterall, why am I backing up what is on hda3 to a .gz file on hda3 (where I have set up the backup location)?

BTW, this is not covered in the wiki Persistent home directory topic.

Next quesiton:

Where do I learn about Busybox commands? I am use to Redhat/Centos.

I mean I type in: man wlan

and the terminal session hangs.

Let alone the equiv to 'locate' (I see that there is updatedb).

Posted by curaga on Sep. 05 2007,16:27

DSL has network man pages, and if you don't use a current one, the man page server recently went offline, so no wonder you can't see the manuals..

for busybox commands, "busybox" lists them, and "command --help" tells what it can do..
Locate isn't included, but I think it's in gnu-utils. Without it you can always do a (slow) recursive search, like the sloow windoze one..

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find / -name "*my search*"

For that backup thingy I can't say anything. It does sound reasonable though not to back it up.,.

Posted by dslrgm on Sep. 05 2007,18:28

Quote (curaga @ Sep. 05 2007,12:27)

DSL has network man pages, and if you don't use a current one, the man page server recently went offline, so no wonder you can't see the manuals..

Kind of hard to do a network man pages when what you are trying to find out about is the network commands and config files.....

I SUPPOSE, I can put my ethernet card back in and use that to get to man pages.

I have the disk space. Is there a MyDSL app for help that I can download?

Posted by curaga on Sep. 05 2007,18:40

yes.. but it doesn't have all the man pages, or the right versions of all..

Posted by dslrgm on Sep. 05 2007,19:40

Quote (curaga @ Sep. 05 2007,14:40)

yes.. but it doesn't have all the man pages, or the right versions of all..

ARGH!!!!

Posted by mikshaw on Sep. 05 2007,20:12

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Since I have a cheatcode of home=hda3, do I remove from .filetool.lst the line:

home/dsl/

Afterall, why am I backing up what is on hda3 to a .gz file on hda3 (where I have set up the backup location)?

Yes.

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yes.. but it doesn't have all the man pages, or the right versions of all

Most of the pages should be adequate for learning everything but the most recent changes to the applications. You might find it more frustrating that many features listed in man pages (no matter where you find them) will not be useable with Busybox apps. You can generally run the Busybox commands with the "--help" or similar option to see which options in the man pages actually work with the Busybox version.

Posted by dslrgm on Sep. 05 2007,21:45

Quote (mikshaw @ Sep. 05 2007,16:12)

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[quote]yes.. but it doesn't have all the man pages, or the right versions of all

But first you have to know what the busybox command is in place of the Redhat command....

Posted by roberts on Sep. 05 2007,21:53

Perhaps you should try typing busybox at a command prompt.

Posted by dslrgm on Sep. 06 2007,01:12

Quote (roberts @ Sep. 05 2007,17:53)

Perhaps you should try typing busybox at a command prompt.

Oh....

Now how was I suppose to know that???

< http://www.busybox.net/about.html >

"BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities into a single small executable. It provides replacements for most of the utilities you usually find in GNU fileutils, shellutils, etc. The utilities in BusyBox generally have fewer options than their full-featured GNU cousins; however, the options that are included provide the expected functionality and behave very much like their GNU counterparts. BusyBox provides a fairly complete environment for any small or embedded system."

Wonders of Google. But then,I should have known....

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