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James Miller wrote:
>
> Ok.  But to resolve the remaining "unkown commands" - netstat and fuser -
> I'm going to have to install tcpip1 and procps, right?  

Not necessarily.  You can untar the package in the /tmp directory,
follow the subdirectories down to the executable and move it to
the appropriate directory.  Then delete the rest.

> When I install those, would any such problem as you've mentioned 
> (busybox getting overwritten) be expected?  

It's certainly possible.  As I understand it, you symlinked ifconfig.  
When you install tcip1, the real ifconfig will unpack into that 
directory.  Depending on how that file is created, it *might* be 
redirected by the symlink and overwrite busybox.  I had this happen 
with BL1 when I installed a package from Slackware 3.5 (that's why 
in BL2 I moved the symlinks into /bin/busybox where they could not 
be overwritten). Whether a similar thing happens with packages from 
Slackware 7.1, I don't know.

Cheers,
Steven