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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Mon, 19 Dec 2005, David Moberg wrote:

> sindi keesan wrote:
>
> > Pine won't let me view the script as text, says it is in 'SH' format.
>
> Can you set it to treat certain file types as text?
Don't know.  I could save it to home directory and read it there.

> > > You will probably want to modify this script to put some links in
> > > /sbin instead.
> >
> > I notice some of the links to busybox programs are already in /sbin, which
> > is before busybox on the path.  Which other ones should be moved there?
>
> /sbin is supposed to be for anything that is useless for a normal user but
> is useful for root in single user mode. This includes basic configuration
> tools which are not usable by users, such as insmod, rmmod, e2fsck,
> ifconfig, etc. Also, basic utilities used to go into multiuser mode, such
> as init, getty.
>
> If an applet is usable by an ordinary user, such as ping, ls, cp, etc.
> and is needed in single user mode, it goes in /bin. /usr/bin and
> /usr/sbin are essentially the same, but they contain programs that
> are useful only after you have logged in as a user (or root).
>
> If all of this is making your head spin, just find a copy of
> busybox.links, such as this one:
>
> http://svn.gnumonks.org/trunk/a780/src/busybox/busybox.links
>
> It contains a list of most of the links and where they go.

Will it hurt, if I operate only as /root, to leave everything where it is?
This seems to be the setup of BL2 (/bin/busybox/busybox).  I have full 
init in /sbin, which comes first on the path, and don't want to overwrite 
it with a link.

I think your script requires the full tail and expr.  Have you actually 
run it from BL3 or BL2?  I also cannot install bison.tgz with the busybox 
expr.


> David