command linux

[valrug]

what are the most useful commands to query the receiver in linux?

[housy01]

Re: command linux

Can you explain what do you mean by query your box.
You can use all basically linux commands you know...

[fackie]

Re: command linux

As @housy01 says, it will depend on what you want to achieve. Good starting points to keep things in check are the likes of "ps -ef", "top", "netstat -an", and a few others.

Please expand on what you're trying to achieve.

[PYO]

Re: command linux

I think the best command to query receiver connected to LAN will be:
telnet ip_address_of_receiver.

[fran.javi.fer]

Re: command linux

what are the most useful commands to query the receiver in linux?

What kind of receiver?

[mahrkpat]

Re: command linux

What kind of receiver?

Obviously it has to be a linux based receiver but not a closed one eg dreambox.

[besit]

Re: command linux

Strange kind of question
To know it's alive "ping box_name"
To get the command prompt "telnet box_name"
To transfer config files "ftp" or run ftp gui like cuteftp
These are all beautiful commands.

[fran.javi.fer]

Re: command linux

In some receivers running linux maybe you can get a command prompt running "ssh"

[joseram2000]

Re: command linux

The best way is to do it through ssh, directly from a PC with Linux distribution, or from windows with putty,

[luk4asz]

Re: command linux

For me, the most important is ftp (totalcommander).
I only use a few commands:
top
killall -9 name_process
netstat-an
mkdir
rmdir
passwd
cat
and it is good to know vi or something like to editing text files.

[kalpikos]

Re: command linux

The most useful command for me is "reboot".

I use it from DCC and telnet in order to reboot my box,
when I'm away from my home.

[cisko]

Re: command linux

ssh is the best way to query linux system. If your box doesn't support ssh, use telnet, is the same but without SSL connection.

To check status of some parameters, if the program support this function, you can use a webpage. Of corse this is the best way, but this is not a general method.

[aplok]

Re: command linux

- to open a session onto your box, from a console

telnet ip
root
dreambox


- to get the PATH

root@dreambox:~> echo $PATH
/sbin:/bin:/var/bin:/var/sbin:/tmp


- to list the command in the PATH

root@dreambox:~> for aa in $(echo $PATH |sed 's/:/ /g'); do echo; echo --- $aa; ls $aa; done

--- /sbin
automount hdparm init mkswap start-stop-daemon telnetd
chroot hotplug insmod poweroff streampes udhcpc
crond httpd klogd rdate streamsec udpstreampes
dropbear ifconfig loadkmap reboot streamts
dropbearkey in.ftpd logread rmmod swapoff
dropbearmulti in.telnetd losetup route swapon
halt inetd lsmod scp syslogd

--- /bin
[ cp etherwake gzip mkdir pwd su uniq
ash crontab expr head mknod reset sync unix2dos
awk date false hostname more rm tail uptime
basename dd find id mount rmdir tar usleep
boot df flashtool inadyn mv sed telnet vi
bunzip2 dmesg free kill nc sh test wc
busybox dos2unix fusermount killall netstat showlogo top wget
bzcat du gdaemon lcdoff nslookup sleep touch which
cat dvbnet grab ln passwd smbmnt true whoami
chgrp echo grep logger pidof smbmount tty xargs
chmod enigma gtraffic login ping sort udhcpc yes
chown env gtrans ls prockill streamripper umount zcat
clear eraseall gunzip md5sum ps stty uname

--- /var/bin
CCcam_2.1.4 CCcaminfo.so enigmanet inadyn

--- /var/sbin
ls: /var/sbin: No such file or directory

--- /tmp
gdaemon.socket hotplug.socket mmi.socket



- to see the command available in your shell

root@dreambox:~> busybox --help
BusyBox v1.01 (2009.12.12-13:19+0000) multi-call binary

Usage: busybox [function] [arguments]...
or: [function] [arguments]...

BusyBox is a multi-call binary that combines many common Unix
utilities into a single executable. Most people will create a
link to busybox for each function they wish to use and BusyBox
will act like whatever it was invoked as!

Currently defined functions:
[, ash, awk, basename, bunzip2, busybox, bzcat, cat, chgrp, chmod, chown, chroot, clear, cp, crond, crontab,
date, dd, df, dmesg, dos2unix, du, echo, env, expr, false, find, free, grep, gunzip, gzip, halt, hdparm, head,
hostname, httpd, id, ifconfig, inetd, init, insmod, kill, killall, klogd, ln, loadkmap, logger, login, logread,
losetup, ls, lsmod, md5sum, mkdir, mknod, mkswap, more, mount, mv, nc, netstat, nslookup, passwd, pidof, ping,
poweroff, ps, pwd, rdate, reboot, reset, rm, rmdir, rmmod, route, sed, sh, sleep, sort, start-stop-daemon,
stty, su, swapoff, swapon, sync, syslogd, tail, tar, telnet, telnetd, test, top, touch, true, tty, udhcpc,
umount, uname, uniq, unix2dos, uptime, usleep, vi, wc, wget, which, whoami, xargs, yes, zcat



- to get help of the command ls

root@dreambox:~> ls --help
BusyBox v1.01 (2009.12.12-13:19+0000) multi-call binary

Usage: ls [-1AacCdeFilnpLRrSsTtuvwxXhk] [filenames...]


- to do all the best out of your box

--hxxp://www.dreambox.it/guide_base_comandi_telnet.htm

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