Pico and the big ash

Patrick Tracanelli eksffa at bsd.com.br
Thu Nov 6 11:57:36 PST 2003


Larry Baird wrote:

 > If you rebuild the tinyware stuff with -DOINIT_RC

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 > look at /usr/src/release/picobsd/tinyware/oinit/README.

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Thank you Larry, i forgot to say that i had already tried oinit. It is a
pretty good stuff for some needs, but it does not handle if/for loops
nor * wildcard, say, gzip -d *.gz and w/o a for i cant list (otherwise
by myself) some files i need. And unfortunely i need authetication to
provide a "read only" user for wireless stats, so onit doesnt fit my needs.

I decided to give esh a try, because it is small and uses a programing
language that may be useful, i will try to rewrite my etc/rc in Scheme
(well i dont know lisp, but lets try). If I realize i cant survive with
Scheme i think pdksh seems to run all ash scripts (it is 160k large).
Anyway if anyone have even a smaller suggestion than pdksh for ash-like
shell i appreciate :)

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Patrick Tracanelli




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