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SlOrbA
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 Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 12:05 pm Post subject: Ability to use telnet to get root mounted with busybox |
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I have my server remotely located and for some reason my root fs device path doesn't always work. This is the reason, but I'd think there are many other reasons for wanting ssh/telnet connection to a host if the boot is stalled into busybox.
I'm useing genkernel as my primary kernel composer and is would be nice to have this ability to work with it.
Busybox should be able to facilitate this functionality, but the Linuxrc script is most likely the most difficult part to modify for this kind of remote managment. |
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adaptr
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Joined: 06 Oct 2002
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| Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 2:08 pm Post subject: Re: Ability to use telnet to get root mounted with busybox |
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| SlOrbA wrote: | | I have my server remotely located and for some reason my root fs device path doesn't always work. |
Please provide actual verifyable data: what you tried, what doesn't work, and what the expected outcome was.
Figuring out why this fails sometimes is always better than cobbling hacks together.
| SlOrbA wrote: | | This is the reason, but I'd think there are many other reasons for wanting ssh/telnet connection to a host if the boot is stalled into busybox. |
Erm.. what ?
No, there is no chance in hell you can ssh/telnet/whatever into a box that can not mount its root partition - you will have no users, no services, and no network.
Okay, you can run a telnetd daemon from busybox - how long do you think it will take for that to be cracked ?
In seconds, please.
| SlOrbA wrote: | | I'm useing genkernel as my primary kernel composer and is would be nice to have this ability to work with it. |
No idea what you mean or what you want.
Busybox is not a component of genkernel - you'll have to add that functionality yourself.
You'll also at minimum need uClibc for busybox to work.
| SlOrbA wrote: | | Busybox should be able to facilitate this functionality, |
No, it shouldn't - please read the busybox FAQ for what its developers think of people who think they should.
Busybox lacks the ability to start up a network or run any normal services.
It just provides the most often-used tools in a small package.
You will need to provide it with some sort of environment in order to accomplish any of these things.
At the very least, you're looking at some intricately complex initrd functionality.
| SlOrbA wrote: | | but the Linuxrc script is most likely the most difficult part to modify for this kind of remote managment. |
No, the fact that you cannot mount the root partition is the one and only obstruction to any kind of remote management.
As I said above: solve the problem, don't go cobbling together a bad solution as if that's some sort of alternative - it isn't.
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