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    i have no idea what im doing.

    well iv managed to get Unslung installed on my NSLU2 NAS thanks to a very nice step by step. however now i have no idea what im doing.

    basically i want to get advanced ctorrent installed, configured in some basic way and going. but in the weird mirror world of linux where dir = ls i have no idea, and the linux community is crap.

    anyone know of a nice guide for us idiots?
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    "First Steps" on http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/Optw...slung.Packages

    followed by "Installation" on http://www.nslu2-linux.org/wiki/Optw...hancedCTorrent

    and "ls" has been the way to list files in a directory since before ms-dos existed

    edit: wasn't being sufficiently Enhanced
    Last edited by directhex; 21-02-2007 at 01:11 AM.

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    cheers directhex, but iv read through these previously (this is the site that got me started on this bloody thing).

    still so many holes tho, how do i run programs, how do i know which programs are running, how do i know if or make a program launch from boot, how do i stop a program. its the very basics i have no idea with and a guide to this kind of thing which is in the context of the Unslung firmware is what im after.
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    madduck, set a time and meet me in an irc channel and i'll discuss all your problems with you and see if we can get you moving rather than playing "post command" tennis in here.
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    Quote Originally Posted by MadduckUK View Post
    how do i run programs
    to run "programname", type "programname"

    to run "programname" in the background (so you can carry on in the same terminal) type "programname &"

    to run "programname" in the background such that you can log off & it keeps running, type "nohup programname &"

    how do i know which programs are running
    with the "ps" command. "ps -ef" will yield the most useful information

    how do i know if or make a program launch from boot
    if it's running when you first log in (as detailed by ps) then it's being launched at boot. chances are it's being launched by an init script.

    unslung puts init scripts into /opt/init.d - scripts are started on boot and stopped on shutdown.

    i don't know more specifics to the way unslung boots, but there might be a 'misc' script of some kind in there you can tinker with

    how do i stop a program.
    if it's started by an init script, then "/opt/init.d/scriptname stop"

    otherwise get the process id from "ps -ef" (first number), and kill it with "kill processidnumber"

    its the very basics i have no idea with and a guide to this kind of thing which is in the context of the Unslung firmware is what im after.
    presumably there's an assumption that if you're tinkering about in a console, you've got some console background - isn't there a web-based GUI otherwise?

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    all the setting up is done via telnet. some programs have a web GUI once everything is configured but im miles away from that.
    Quote Originally Posted by Ephesians
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