Commit Graph

498 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Eric Andersen
537d165216 Update contact info. 2001-01-25 22:00:37 +00:00
Eric Andersen
c1b8f1224c Apply a patch from Brent Priddy <brent.priddy@adtran.com> to add
'id -n' support.
 -Erik
2001-01-25 05:12:02 +00:00
Eric Andersen
8c5cb31e1b Fix up insmod usage info to mention -L 2001-01-24 19:15:07 +00:00
Mark Whitley
a5b55ca8a9 - Added a section on avoiding static buffers, per mailing list discussions
- Added a section on avoiding dangerous, overrun-prone string functions, per
   mailing list comment by David Douthitt
 - Added comment on how to search-and-replace in multiple files per (very old)
   mailing list comment by Larry Doolittle.
2001-01-24 00:18:13 +00:00
Glenn L McGrath
fa0443216d Add dpkg-deb documentation 2001-01-03 01:06:30 +00:00
Matt Kraai
004827d715 Update logger usage information. 2001-01-02 22:54:12 +00:00
Mark Whitley
3680c58084 Some corrections, some additions, some embellishments. 2000-12-20 22:35:12 +00:00
Mark Whitley
8eb5985f94 More spelling fixes from Larry Doolittle. 2000-12-19 19:44:35 +00:00
Mark Whitley
8a6b619c96 Added a paragraph from Larry Dolittle, made some more section headers. 2000-12-19 17:54:38 +00:00
Mark Whitley
eac2636513 New applet HOWTO. Written by Matt Kraai with some formating and additions by me. 2000-12-19 17:35:24 +00:00
Eric Andersen
0d2acb0ead Doc update from Matt Kraai, better describing the init process. 2000-12-18 20:36:02 +00:00
Matt Kraai
8677d7b6ec Only say mailing list once. 2000-12-15 15:41:03 +00:00
Eric Andersen
1b622ff5ac Add in mkCDrec - make CD-ROM recovery project. 2000-12-14 15:43:57 +00:00
Matt Kraai
e3a94f7d08 Ran aspell. 2000-12-13 19:50:48 +00:00
Eric Andersen
4362200712 Website update for the release 2000-12-13 18:30:13 +00:00
Eric Andersen
d0fa0a12f1 Document gzip -d 2000-12-13 17:59:37 +00:00
Eric Andersen
20c2bdd7f2 Fix spelling error s/defaut/default/g 2000-12-11 19:39:25 +00:00
Eric Andersen
70d09ed1cf Reverse logic so when network logging, it by default does not log locally. 2000-12-11 16:24:16 +00:00
Eric Andersen
5b5db38a7d Patch from Matt Kraai to implement uniq -[cdu] 2000-12-09 16:37:53 +00:00
Eric Andersen
eb4218d0a4 Update inittab docs 2000-12-08 20:38:00 +00:00
Eric Andersen
bf2b8ae49a Make no local logging a runtime option for network logging... 2000-12-08 19:52:01 +00:00
Eric Andersen
bfa54143f6 Ignore the newdocs as well 2000-12-06 23:12:43 +00:00
Eric Andersen
0730943b49 Moar Speling fickes frum Larry Doolittle 2000-11-29 22:12:19 +00:00
Mark Whitley
d58ff8731c Re-organized some sections and added a whole new section on avoiding the
preprocessor. Comments welcome.
2000-11-22 19:25:39 +00:00
Mark Whitley
5022d0e55f Added AdTran to the list of products using Busybox. 2000-11-17 22:07:08 +00:00
Mark Whitley
9028e2c96a Numerous spelling / grammar corrections from Larry Doolittle
<ldoolitt@recycle.lbl.gov>, as well as a few additions / clarifications.
2000-11-17 21:28:39 +00:00
Eric Andersen
337ec1bb32 Fix typo pointed out by Michael Renzmann <renzmann@gmx.de> 2000-11-17 17:23:16 +00:00
Eric Andersen
8045c08e1c Oops. I kant tipe. 2000-11-14 22:57:46 +00:00
Eric Andersen
2aa1091130 Ulp. "expr" listed as a second "echo" (oops) -- thanks to David Douthitt
for noticing....
2000-11-14 21:28:09 +00:00
Eric Andersen
6d5b73d183 Add in Zdisk 2000-11-14 21:12:39 +00:00
Eric Andersen
0d5835a767 Apply patch from "Orion Poplawski" <OPoplawski@cqg.com> to make
hostname do "--file"
 -Erik
2000-10-12 22:30:31 +00:00
Eric Andersen
8ce85ce4e3 Fix up the docs 2000-09-26 22:20:06 +00:00
Eric Andersen
bdcc6fbd95 update the docs 2000-09-26 06:15:12 +00:00
Eric Andersen
57f83fffd8 Doc update 2000-09-24 02:41:44 +00:00
Eric Andersen
6d66817b6b update docs for xargs 2000-09-23 06:12:34 +00:00
Eric Andersen
5b17693f0a Use minix xargs instead, and update docs accordingly
-Erik
2000-09-22 20:22:28 +00:00
Eric Andersen
350b3f9236 Typo fix. 2000-09-21 02:06:35 +00:00
Eric Andersen
cff3fe3ae9 Added dos2unix, unix2dos, and unrpm.c thanks to robotti@metconnect.com.
-Erik
2000-09-20 19:22:26 +00:00
Pavel Roskin
c9db2e8665 Updated to be in sync with the current sample inittab 2000-09-15 17:24:13 +00:00
Pavel Roskin
d2d3aa39ef Fixed compliance with the DTD 2000-09-15 17:16:40 +00:00
John Beppu
2aee993118 + credit markw@lineo.com for his contributions 2000-09-15 08:04:42 +00:00
Eric Andersen
b4c3c59a45 Add in BasicLinux by request 2000-09-13 23:06:41 +00:00
Matt Kraai
17c8851813 Fix more typos. 2000-09-06 03:59:49 +00:00
Matt Kraai
9dd79791c8 Fixed a grammatical error. 2000-09-06 00:50:51 +00:00
Eric Andersen
1b355ebba6 Added expr, from Edward Betts <edward@debian.org>, with some fixups
and docs added by me.
 -Erik
2000-09-05 17:37:48 +00:00
Eric Andersen
fd50c3d2f9 Add in byld 2000-09-01 22:24:03 +00:00
Eric Andersen
18a1014c95 updated some usage info from a patch from robotti@metconnect.com
-Erik
2000-09-01 16:12:57 +00:00
Mark Whitley
2368a387ed Some additional tips and formatting changes. 2000-08-22 00:20:21 +00:00
Eric Andersen
e4c4d69c04 Fix a silly bug so it compiles up properly
-Erik
2000-08-21 23:29:45 +00:00
Eric Andersen
918507edda Added the 'rdate' command, thanks to Sterling Huxley <sterling@europa.com>.
I added the docs, and made behavior identical to the GNU version.
 -Erik
2000-08-21 22:46:33 +00:00
Eric Andersen
a1f16bba72 Added getopt(1) from "Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@trillian.itslinux.org>
-Erik
2000-08-21 22:02:34 +00:00
Eric Andersen
fa405d0cb2 Add in the "reset" command.
-Erik
2000-08-21 21:18:52 +00:00
Eric Andersen
bb39a31e33 Minor link update
-Erik
2000-08-11 18:13:21 +00:00
Eric Andersen
fdd5103348 Merge in two patches from Dave Cinege:
the first is a cleanup of tar --exclude
    the second changes mount so mtab works more as it should, and
    also allows mount to use the traditional short form (i.e.
    'mount / -o remount,rw' now works.

While inside tar, I changed it to use getopt...
 -Erik
2000-08-02 18:48:26 +00:00
Mark Whitley
52681b48dc Added a note in the "Tips and Pointer" section on the correct way to test for
string equivalence with strcmp().
2000-07-25 20:30:00 +00:00
Mark Whitley
40bfc76385 First revision of the Busybox Style Guide and an accompanying .indent.pro
file.
2000-07-24 22:36:06 +00:00
Eric Andersen
bf960f58e2 Added 'renice' command, thanks to Dave Cinege <dcinege@psychosis.com>
-Erik
2000-07-21 21:32:12 +00:00
Eric Andersen
ec8d60f0f8 Add in the LinuxMagic VPN Firewall
-Erik
2000-07-21 17:22:19 +00:00
Pavel Roskin
0010ee45e3 Fixed usage info for "cut" 2000-07-21 15:10:57 +00:00
Eric Andersen
ced2cefcca * syslogd can now log messages to a remote host -- patch thanks
to Gyepi Sam <gyepi@praxis-sw.com>
 -Erik
2000-07-20 23:41:24 +00:00
Eric Andersen
97426e082a Changed verbiage.
-Erik
2000-07-11 23:06:48 +00:00
Eric Andersen
8fbaeece53 Replaced projects with products/projects.
-Erik
2000-07-11 23:05:38 +00:00
Eric Andersen
68fda241d2 Added the Kerbango Internet Radio to projects/products using BusyBox.
-Erik
2000-07-11 23:03:40 +00:00
Eric Andersen
aec27bca98 Final updates for release.
-Erik
2000-07-11 18:18:40 +00:00
Eric Andersen
61dc057183 Added 'dumpkmap' to allow people to dump a binary keymap, which can then be
loaded in by 'loadkmap' -- submitted by Arne Bernin <arne@matrix.loopback.org>
 -Erik
2000-07-11 17:29:36 +00:00
Matt Kraai
da9841efc1 Fix dead link.
-Matt
2000-07-11 16:09:01 +00:00
Eric Andersen
877a71bbf0 Add in tinynet
-Erik
2000-07-08 16:19:10 +00:00
Eric Andersen
9cf44e79aa Doc updates to remove sfdisk.
-Erik
2000-07-08 00:09:30 +00:00
Eric Andersen
3312b0b626 Web page update from Matt Kraai <kraai@alumni.carnegiemellon.edu>
-Erik
2000-07-07 19:23:10 +00:00
Eric Andersen
2158092344 This patch finishes the cleanup of all the commands. It also cleans up
the remaining chapters -- Matt Kraai <kraai@alumni.carnegiemellon.edu>
 -Erik
2000-07-07 19:07:47 +00:00
Eric Andersen
b9eb0233a9 Yet another busybox documentation update from Matt Kraai <kraai@alumni.carnegiemellon.edu>
-Erik
2000-07-07 05:04:24 +00:00
Eric Andersen
e5cec4e3ac More doc patches from Matt Kraai <kraai@alumni.carnegiemellon.edu>.
Thanks Matt!
 -Erik
2000-07-06 19:59:22 +00:00
Eric Andersen
6f5e281479 DocBook documentation update from Matt Kraai <kraai@alumni.carnegiemellon.edu>
-Erik
2000-07-06 16:58:45 +00:00
Eric Andersen
2086e3d679 Some cosmetic updates. Changed "OPTIONS" to "Options".
-Erik
2000-07-04 22:17:01 +00:00
Eric Andersen
028fb625f5 More doc updates
-Erik
2000-07-04 20:07:13 +00:00
Eric Andersen
5331025f79 A first pass at integrating the SGML docs into the Makefile.
A first pass a cleaning up the current SGML (lots more cleanup
is needed though).
 -Erik
2000-07-04 19:42:23 +00:00
Mark Whitley
83a949cb22 Just converted busybox.pod to busybox.sgml using the Pod::DocBook Perl module.
The resulting file needs some massaging and once it gets presentable, I'll
edit the Makefile to use the SGML file as the "authoritative" file; the plan
here is to generate other file formats from the SGML.
2000-06-26 13:31:53 +00:00
Eric Andersen
1386e70210 Fixed segfault with 'cut -f 1 -d:' and added 'cut -s' suport.
Fix thanks to Arne Bernin <arne@matrix.loopback.org>
 -Erik
2000-06-26 12:14:30 +00:00
Eric Andersen
4a971aef59 Minor web page update.
-Erik
2000-06-22 01:27:11 +00:00
Eric Andersen
addc9c28ad Document 'ln --'
-Erik
2000-06-21 22:53:24 +00:00
Eric Andersen
766c012975 Web site updates.
-Erik
2000-06-21 22:43:07 +00:00
Pavel Roskin
afa0662860 Documented "which" 2000-06-21 21:43:24 +00:00
Pavel Roskin
1a804e4b3c Removed trailing spaces 2000-06-21 21:38:00 +00:00
Eric Andersen
f929641c51 Add in telnet docs.
-Erik
2000-06-21 21:04:01 +00:00
Eric Andersen
feb47c024a Add insmod docs
-Erik
2000-06-21 21:03:13 +00:00
Pavel Roskin
f7a01951fb Updated the list of supported commands 2000-06-21 20:25:07 +00:00
Pavel Roskin
7ac06a3ff1 Removed all vestiges of "math" 2000-06-21 20:17:29 +00:00
John Beppu
0021679b0d + added dc (aka the function formerly known as math)
+ did all the housekeeping that this change requires.
2000-06-21 19:06:16 +00:00
Pavel Roskin
339b892313 Updated e-mail address of Pavel Roskin to proski@gnu.org 2000-06-20 00:11:07 +00:00
Eric Andersen
98cd53e86d Ran it through a spell checker and fixed the spelling errors.
-Erik
2000-06-16 19:56:44 +00:00
John Beppu
3c709b45b3 + minor typo fix
s/&gt/&gt;/
2000-06-14 09:11:05 +00:00
Eric Andersen
2b6ab3cbf8 Add new apps md5sum uudecode uuencode, fix some minor formatting things.
-Erik
2000-06-13 06:54:53 +00:00
John Beppu
44760d058c + updated docs to reflect math's filter capabilities. 2000-06-12 23:04:55 +00:00
Pavel Roskin
049b706591 My pod2man (perl-5.00503) complains if there is no newline after "Options:" 2000-06-07 21:19:49 +00:00
Pavel Roskin
da10ec0eaa Syslogd will not go to background if "-n" is given. Better help
and argument checking
2000-06-07 21:08:25 +00:00
Pavel Roskin
0024abcbbc Implemented "ping -s", fixed error messages and argument parsing 2000-06-07 20:38:15 +00:00
Eric Andersen
a42982e8f5 * Fixed 'swapon -a' and 'swapoff -a', which were broken.
* Fixed 'mount -a' so it works as expected.
* Implemented 'ls -R' (enabled by enabling BB_FEATURE_LS_RECURSIVE)
 -Erik
2000-06-07 17:28:53 +00:00
Eric Andersen
815e904470 Fixed a bunch of stuff:
* Fixed segfault caused by "touch -c"
	* Fixed segfault caused by "rm -f"
	* Fixed segfault caused by "ln -s -s" and similar abuses.
	* Fixed segfault caused by "cp -a -a" and similar abuses.
	* Implemented "rm -- <foo>"
updated docs accordingly.
 -Erik
2000-06-06 16:15:23 +00:00
Pavel Roskin
82c0ac7e4f Fix more spelling errors. 2000-06-05 20:19:47 +00:00
Eric Andersen
f2fffefe49 Fix spelling error
-Erik
2000-06-05 17:23:06 +00:00
Eric Andersen
36fe1a30b1 Fix spelling errors.
-Erik
2000-06-05 17:22:37 +00:00
Eric Andersen
ec480c49c2 oops. Don't commit autogenerated stuff.
-Erik
2000-06-02 03:23:28 +00:00
Eric Andersen
86ab8a32bd A number of additional fixed from Pavel Roskin, note some more bugs in the
TODO list.  Add Glenn to the Authors list for writing a mini ar for BusyBox,
which is now included.
 -Erik
2000-06-02 03:21:42 +00:00
Eric Andersen
4062268bc7 Acknowledge contributions of Pavel Roskin, and fix doc building
so the html goes into the website directory.
 -Erik
2000-06-02 03:21:41 +00:00
Eric Andersen
08e9289ab3 Acknowledge contributions of Pavel Roskin, and fix doc building
so the html goes into the website directory.
 -Erik
2000-06-02 03:21:36 +00:00
Eric Andersen
1624813459 Point to the local BusyBox.html docs.
-Erik
2000-06-02 03:20:22 +00:00
Eric Andersen
b83e0ed3a1 Forgot to checkin the busybox website graphics. Here they are...
-Erik
2000-06-02 02:33:24 +00:00
Eric Andersen
b5966368d7 Minor doc fix. Added several bugs to the todo list. Fixed the way init
scans /etc/inittab entries so that commands can contain ":"s.
 -Erik
2000-05-31 20:04:38 +00:00
Eric Andersen
e511e7c116 Minor update to web page.
-Erik
2000-05-25 00:18:59 +00:00
Erik Andersen
330fd2b576 More libc portability updates, add in the website (which has not been
archived previously).  Wrote 'which' during the meeting today.
 -Erik
2000-05-19 05:35:19 +00:00
Erik Andersen
73c8c9cf9a More doc updates
-Erik
2000-05-13 05:36:13 +00:00
Erik Andersen
7ab9c7ee52 Lots of updates. Finished implementing BB_FEATURE_TRIVIAL_HELP
which lets you compile out most of the "--help" output, saving
up to 17k.

Renamed mnc to nc.
 -Erik
2000-05-12 19:41:47 +00:00
Erik Andersen
ac130e1dca Add suffix stripping support to basename
-Erik
2000-05-10 05:00:31 +00:00
Erik Andersen
6c5f2c6021 Add support for "noatime" and "nodiratime" mount flags to mount.
Change umount "-f" to mean force, and actually use umount2.
Change umount "-l" to mean "Do not free loop device".
Updates docs accordingly.
 -Erik
2000-05-05 19:49:33 +00:00
Erik Andersen
9b15e50835 Tell cvs to never checkin the resultant docs.
-Erik
2000-05-03 03:25:43 +00:00
Erik Andersen
0a704e8ff6 Remove BB_FEATURE_REMOUNT (small, and should always be present)
and fix documentation dependancy checks, so it is only built when
it should be built.
 -Erik
2000-05-03 03:19:06 +00:00
Erik Andersen
a19bc64653 More formatting bugs fixed
-Erik
2000-05-02 06:40:02 +00:00
Erik Andersen
e31c06608e Bug fixes in the docs
-Erik
2000-05-02 05:32:07 +00:00
Erik Andersen
3c1217cfad Document tr change
-Erik
2000-05-01 22:34:24 +00:00
Erik Andersen
4f3f757d56 Latest and greatest. Some effort at libc5 (aiming towards newlib)
compatability.
 -Erik
2000-04-28 00:18:56 +00:00
Erik Andersen
227a59b05d Several more updates
-Erik
2000-04-25 23:24:55 +00:00
John Beppu
f93a95de69 + grep -v # yay! 2000-04-24 18:07:30 +00:00
Erik Andersen
e90f4045af Some more updates and such...
-Erik
2000-04-21 21:53:58 +00:00
Erik Andersen
cf8d38a3eb Doc updates
-Erik
2000-04-21 01:23:36 +00:00
Erik Andersen
1101d23604 Fix email address
-Erik
2000-04-19 05:15:12 +00:00
Erik Andersen
eef658068b Minor doc change
-Erik
2000-04-19 05:12:02 +00:00
Erik Andersen
3fe7f9f20b More minor updates to docs (and making apps behave as the docs
suggest they should)
 -Erik
2000-04-19 03:59:10 +00:00
Erik Andersen
a6c752201e Updates
-Erik
2000-04-18 00:00:52 +00:00
John Beppu
5a50def0f4 - removal of (stray|stealth) spaces 2000-04-17 17:46:46 +00:00
Erik Andersen
26702fe191 Bugfixes.
-Erik
2000-04-17 16:44:46 +00:00
Erik Andersen
e5b6c7dd9c More updates to the docs, and fixes to sync things with the docs.
-Erik
2000-04-17 16:16:10 +00:00
John Beppu
4fd10fc73b + added John Lombardo to AUTHORS section 2000-04-17 05:13:59 +00:00
John Beppu
9057b6a918 + wrap things in B<> to make pod2man happy 2000-04-16 10:22:28 +00:00
Erik Andersen
5e1189e187 More documentation updates, and minor fixes to make things sync
up with the docs.
 -Erik
2000-04-15 16:34:54 +00:00
Erik Andersen
95c1c1e05f Fix a tar bug: tar removed leading '/'s for symlink targets.
Fix a syslogd bug: Only the first sizeof(buffer) was read from the
/dev/log socket, causing (for most cases) only every other log item to be logged.
 -Erik
2000-04-14 21:45:29 +00:00
John Beppu
50ed0676ad + minor whitespace oddities removed
+ re-alphabetized AUTHORS section
+ added Id tag at bottom
2000-04-13 23:44:04 +00:00
Erik Andersen
9cf3bfa7c1 More doc updates for BusyBox, with fixes to apps for bugs revealed
while trying to write docs . :-)
 -Erik
2000-04-13 18:49:43 +00:00
John Beppu
08e7f75ba2 + a comment on line 1 w/ suggested pod2man invocation:
pod2man --center=Lineo --release="version 0.43" busybox.pod > busybox.1
2000-04-13 03:22:20 +00:00
John Beppu
f17792ca9b + formatting modifications to make pod2man(1p) happy. 2000-04-13 03:16:01 +00:00
Erik Andersen
62dc17a3b1 Some docs
-Erik
2000-04-13 01:18:23 +00:00
Erik Andersen
91f3df3c45 Fixed a bug,
-Erik
2000-02-10 22:58:40 +00:00
John Beppu
4581b4cdd9 foreach (@busybox_command) {
put_help_message_in_busybox_pod($_);
}
2000-01-19 15:04:41 +00:00
John Beppu
08fe43d3f9 added a little more content. 2000-01-19 12:39:16 +00:00
John Beppu
46a4e76243 fleshed out a bit more... just wanted to put the current
changes under version control.
2000-01-18 22:33:11 +00:00
John Beppu
3a1b6be7d8 the beginnings of a proper man page for busybox. 2000-01-18 15:45:59 +00:00
Erik Andersen
3163821967 Sync up busybox with the latest and greatest. This is not stuff for
the Embedix release.
 -Erik
2000-01-15 22:28:50 +00:00
Erik Andersen
05df239ed9 Bug fixes.
-Erik
2000-01-13 04:43:48 +00:00
Erik Andersen
9b5c0b7611 More adjustments
-Erik
2000-01-07 18:33:06 +00:00