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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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What's the Busybox default shell?

My guess is this defaults to Bash, but would like to know for sure. Thanks.
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What is NTP dispersion and how do I control it?

We roll out Ubuntu 14.04 servers on isolated networks, running ntpd 4.2.6p5, configured to use multiple NTP servers as provided by customers (no access to pool.ntp.org). Our dumb terminal client devices run an old version of BusyBox (1.00-rc2) and…
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Busybox, netstat, no -p

I have an ultra old (don't ask why) BusyBox (BusyBox v1.01 (2008.12.19-21:31+0000) Built-in shell (ash)) on my DreamBox. I would like to find out which process opened which connection using netstat. But I found out that BusyBox's netstat doesn't…
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How do I use busybox and ftpd to get access to my embedded system

I have an embedded system which has busybox support. I am trying to run an FTP server so I can edit the files and upload data to my embedded system. However when I run busybox ftpd -w / It tells me I need to use the inetd and put it in the conf.…
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Is there a way to get ls to print in colour in busybox?

I'm on a nokia n810 device, which uses busybox instead of the usual gnu coreutils. Is there a way to get busybox's ls to print in colour?
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busybox - how to list process priority?

How to list process priority on an embedded linux with busybox?
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How to manually setup network connection from Busybox shell (ash)?

An embedded device running Linux version 2.6.26.5, ARM Linux Kernel. Busybox v1.10.2 shell (ash), I'm in Busybox shell. I want to set up connection between embedded device and computer. Is it possible manually set up network connection from Busybox…
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Is it possible to check NTPd status on a Busybox system?

I need to know if current date/time is reliable in a small embedded Linux system Busybox-based. I have Busybox ntpd running, but apparently there is no program to to query status. On a more conventional Linux installation I would use ntpdc, ntpq,…
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Busybox-like binaries which ext3 and ext4 support?

We're building a tool right now which includes booting a tiny Linux environment via PXE, and having it perform a number of system configuration operations without loading a larger system. (Formatting disks, creating filesystems, etc.) We've been…
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How to set header with busybox httpd

I am running busybox httpd with following command: busybox httpd -p 80 -h /var/www It works, however I need to set cache-control header to no cache. Currently my server append only these headers: HTTP/1.0 200 OK Content-type: text/html Date:…
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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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How to monitor CPU usage on a device running embedded Linux and BusyBox?

I recently began working with a device that uses embedded Linux and BusyBox. It is very stripped down, and does not have iostat or sar. It also doesn't have dpkg or apt for package management. The system is a development black-box under a…
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Why use nash instead of busybox in initrd and initramfs?

Why use nash instead of busybox in initrd and initramfs? I'm just looking for pros and cons of both really (and any other applications with similar functionality). I'm currently leaning towards busybox being the better option, but I can't help but…
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ESXi 6.5 NFS41 always mounts as Read-Only

I'm trying to mount my NFS41 share from my Freenas box onto ESXi for backup purposes. However, it always mounts as read-only for some reason. I have tried from the GUI as well as the CLI with no success, I specifically leave the --readonly flag off…
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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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