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BusyBox combines common UNIX utilities into a single, small executable, providing a fairly complete environment for any small or embedded operating system. It supports most of the utilities usually found in GNU fileutils, shellutils, etc. BusyBox commands 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.

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Start udhcpd (busybox) with Systemd?

I'd like to start the busybox udhcpd service using systemd. I have a simple /etc/udhcpd.conf file: start 192.168.8.20 #default: 192.168.0.20 end 192.168.8.254 #default: 192.168.0.254 interface wlan0 Here's my…
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Static route in initramfs

My hosting provider unfortunately requires the use of static routes for network configuration (gateway is on a different subnet than the host IP). For that purpose I added the following lines to the network configuration file…
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Difference between busybox system vs non-system users/groups?

Regarding adduser -S and addgroup -S described at https://busybox.net/downloads/BusyBox.html What is the difference between creating a 'system user' and a non-system user? I cannot find additional information about this configuration. When might I…
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What do angle brackets ("less than") mean in busybox 'top' command process STAT column?

I am looking at Busybox top command: Mem: 39444K used, 4404K free, 0K shrd, 0K buff, 24704K cached CPU: 4% usr 7% sys 0% nic 87% idle 0% io 0% irq 0% sirq Load average: 0.02 0.12 0.10 1/172 15422 PID PPID USER STAT VSZ %MEM…
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Does exist a curl equivalent command in routeros?

Just starting with routeros and after searching the official docs just fetch appears I need to do a POST request to REST API but I cannot find any curl like command. Is it possible to install curl somehow?
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Wget on busybox v1.9.1

I have busybox 1.9.1 runing in huawei router. There is few commands, one of them wget and I want to use it, but there is some strange syntax. When I type wget www.google.com like I do normaly on my debian/mint etc, i get help message in this…
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How to use dpkg of busybox

I'm trying to install pkg in a limited space embedded system. I use busybox's dpkg. To let dpkg work, I just touch a file touch /var/lib/dpkg/status But, it still can not work. $dpkg -i…
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What is responsible of setting up the default broadcast address?

The broadcast address is apparently misconfigured on some (old) Linux embedded device that I setup (but that I don't own anymore) because it doesn't match the expected value given the IP address and the netmask (for example, it has a broadcast of…
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Low Overhead Linux Server Install for MySQL

My question is this: Can anyone suggest a linux server that runs mysql really well with really low overhead (other than Ubuntu)? And here's why I have this question: I have a PE1950 III that has given me no end of trouble. This isn't my first…
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ZFS modules suddenly stopped loading - Debian 10

My ZFS modules have mysteriously stopped loading at the point during boot when you would usually unlock the pool with encrypted ZFS on root (Debian 10). It drops into busybox and suggests loading the zfs modules - (initramfs)# modprobe zfs module…
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create data container from another docker image

I have a docker image that is about 900MB it has a directory /data where all the data i want are in and also a /data/.git directory that i will like to exclude. I will like to create a data container(using busybox image for example) with only the…
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How to shutdown ESXi 5 in N minutes

On the VmWare commandline, I can shutdown the box using the halt command ~ # halt --help BusyBox v1.9.1-VMware-visor-6030 (2011-02-15 14:57:41 PST) multi-call binary Usage: halt [-d delay] [-n] [-f] Halt the system Options: -d Delay…
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How to install apt-get on a busybox embedded system?

My embedded system is for sh4 CPU. The debian distribution may get on http://www.si-linux.co.jp/pub/debian-sh/lenny-sh4/ I get the apt*.deb and extract the data.tar.gz. After setup the /etc/apt/sources.list, I could do 'apt-get update'. But it…
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how to sync/flush after fdisk in linux (busybox)

when I change the partition table in Linux (busybox) and exit fdisk I'm still able to mount the old partitions, until I perform a reboot for example a) system is setup and has a /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda2 b) enter fdisk, delete both partition 1…
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Telnet does not give a response

Some wireless access points are acting a little weird, so I want to reboot them every couple of hours. Luckily there exists a security flaw which lets me login as root through telnet when using port 1111 (without username and password). Now I want…
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