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Natanael Copa schrieb: |
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>> QUESTION: Are there any useful configuration tips for dropbear? |
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> default dropbear config have just worked for me. |
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OK |
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>> 6.) Configuration of busybox: busybox provides a lot of tools, but some |
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>> tools should not be used. I have so far identified: |
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>> - start-stop-daemon (provided by baselayout-2) |
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> I use bb start-stop-daemon (not with baselayout-2 though). It works for |
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> almost all Gentoo scripts. (postgresql is one who does not) |
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In baselayout-2 start-stop-daemon is a link to /sbin/rc . Therefore I |
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should disable it in bb |
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>> QUESTION: Are there any tools I should disable, too? Do I really need |
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>> coreutils (and ncurses, which is pulled in by coreutils) or are the |
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>> busybox tools enough (busybox provides about 69% of the tools in coreutils)? |
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> I think busybox coreutils should work. If it doesn not, we should fix |
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> busybox. (if you give me a list, I can take a look at it when i get |
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> time) |
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OK, I put coreutils in package.provided. I will see, if this works out. |
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If there are any problems concerning this, I will post it here. |
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> Here below you also say you use sysvinit. Then you can turn off bb init |
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In fact, at first I thought, baselayout-2 just works with sysvinit, but |
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right now I'm not so sure anymore. It would be cool to get rid of |
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sysvinit, but at the moment I will stay with it and see, if it works. I |
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can later switch to bb init. By the way, do you have a bb inittab file, |
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which works like the sysvinit inittab file for gentoo? |
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> i think. (unless you use it in initramfs) |
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Why? I plan to put the complete file system in initramfs and just use it |
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. Are there any problems with sysvinit? |
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> why not just run mdev -s and let mdev create everything. |
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Well, I think, static files are faster than running mdev. The reason for |
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this is, that I'm a genkernel user and every time my desktop pc boots, |
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it "hangs" a second or two at the mdev command, or at least I think so, |
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because this is the last message given by genkernel before the "hang" |
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time. I have not really tested, if this hang is connected to mdev, so if |
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you say, this should be faster, I would be happy to use mdev in my setup. |
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>> All files I need to fully use my media-pc I will create after booting |
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>> with mdev (from busybox) and copy them to my build machine, since I want |
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>> to use static device files. |
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> You might want to have a look at my medv config and /lib/mdev/* scripts |
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> shipped in my alpine-baselayout. |
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> http://dev.alpinelinux.org/alpine/alpine-baselayout/ |
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> I have also an init.d/mdev script that let me use mdev as an udev |
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> replacement. |
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I will definitely look at this! |
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>> 8.) System configuration: up to now I have only two QUESTIONs: |
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>> -How do I use locals with uclibc? |
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> You mean locales? uclibc has locale support but its not good :-( |
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Yes, locales. Not so good means? I want german locales, because my wife |
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will use this pc, too. Can you point to good reading about uclibc and |
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locales? |
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By the way: bb and dropbear provide both a compilation config file in |
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portage/savedconfig and both have the USE flag savedconfig . uclibc does |
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have this USE flag, too, but does not provide a compilation config file. |
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Do you know why? |
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>> -Do I have to tell baselayout-2, that I use ash as shell? |
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> I dunno, I think /bin/sh pointing to busybox should be enough. |
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OK. Is busybox sh the shell, which is set in the compilation config (in |
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my case ash)? |
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>> 9.) install grub. |
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>> 10.) Build kernel and initramfs from ROOT |
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>> 11.) Boot media-pc with livecd and copy kernel, initramfs and grub files |
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>> to media-pc. QUESTION: Since I have already grub installed on my |
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>> media-pc, grub installation to boot sector is not a problem, but what do |
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>> you do, if you do not have grub installed? Boot with livecd, extract |
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>> initramfs and use installed grub to install grub to boot sector? |
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> You can use grub on livecd. |
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Ah, OK, have not thought about that! |
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>> QUESTION: Do you have any remarks? |
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> You could try busybox-1.7.x. Its a good release. |
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I switched to bb 1.7.1 . |
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Thanks for your input! |
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Marc |
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