I need a simple busybox sh wrapper which will do: IF "-Q" PARAMETER IS PROVIDED THEN acommand ALL PARAMETERS BUT "-Q" 2>&1 1>/dev/null ELSE acommand ALL PARAMETERS FI Parameters may include spaces. BTW I want to run the script with busybox sh and it doesn't support arrays. ...
I have a bash shell script which has the line: g=$(/bin/printf ${i}) when ${i} contains something like -6, printf thinks its being passed an option. It does not recognize the option so produces an error. if wrap ${i} in quotes, printf still thinks its being passed an option. g=$(/bin/printf "${i}") if I escape the quotes, variab...
I'm wondering if anyone has created a generic "busy box" type control for ASP.NET MVC. Basically something that popups (disables the screen) while the page loads (or redirects). ...
I need to synchronize a user account and password to an external source on a system with busybox and openssl installed. When the external source tells my system to update credentials, how do I change the user's password in a script? I will have the password in plain text. This has to be automated, and from what I can tell busybox pass...
I found that the busybox's ash syntax is different from the other standard shells (sh, bash, tcsh). Is there any documentation of its syntax or a tutorial for ash ? ...
I installed the latest busybox to my new embedded project. It runs OK until I try to put dropbear in my application. The busybox shell complains that dropbear is not found although "which dropbear" command gives me the correct answer "/sbin/dropbear". If I change its mode to RW, it complains that dropbear is not executable. I have tried ...
My goal is to use a script that will install an executable file on Linux (Busybox variant). The target file should run when the computer starts, so in the rc.sysinit file, I'll have a line like the following: /usr/bin/foo & Now, when I run the install script, that line may or may not already be present (depending if the file had been ...
Hi, I am using busybox shell to execute a script which the bash executes when i boot linux using the nfs. Please let me know the correct alternative for this line. cur_major=$((0x`stat -c %t $dev 2>/dev/null`)) The busybox throws in an error saying "0x" syntax error, which i understand is the problem with the syntax of this line. Th...
Does anybody know how the dynamic linking and shared library loading works in BusyBox 0.61 ? I can't seem to find how this is done. There's no 'ld' present on the embedded system I'm dealing with, nor is there an LD_LIBRARY_PATH variable set anywhere. My motivation for this is to be able to create a symlink in the /lib directory to ano...
Hello Although I have no problem using SecureCRT (5.1.2 build 274) to work from Windows and connect to PC's running Linux, I have a problem when connecting to an embedded Asterisk appliance that provides"vi" through BusyBox 1.4.1 (2008-03-10). The issue I'm having, is that when I paste code into vi, the text appears jagged like this: ...
Hi BusyBox v1.7.2 compiled and running on MIPS-based embedded platform, unfortunately I can't get dhcprelay work properly. I run it this way: dhcprelay vlan1 vlan2 192.168.1.150 where vlan1 (192.168.2.10) - is LAN, vlan2 (ip 192.168.1.2) - interface connected to WAN, 192.168.1.150 - dhcp server address. So, I connect a Windows PC to...
I am trying to cross-compile busybox but I am getting 'undefined reference' at the linking stage. Using nm, the symbol were in fact missing from the library file (libbb.a in my case.) Looking into the source ('busybox/libbb/xfuncs.c'), there are all these #ifdef L_<function_name> wrapping around the functions in question. Does anyone ...