[DOC] Telnet(d) with PCH-A100 and vi commands

[Kasimodo]

Hello,

Well, sorry for my very bad english (as bad as english of werner :cool

Because, I've wasted many of my time to get information about how to do to install but particularly to edit some files with telnet so...

First, you have to install/enable telnet to the PCH.
Just see the Lundman Wiki.

If all is correct, just open a terminal window from your Linux preferred and type:

Code:

telnet xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

(where xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is the ip address of your PCH)

You must see something like that:

Code:

Trying 192.168.1.3...
Connected to 192.168.1.3.
Escape character is '^]'.

BusyBox v1.5.0 (2008-07-10 18:07:27 MYT) Built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.

/ #

/ # <= this is your prompt command.
Then, to edit a text file, you have to go to the directory where busybox is installed.
If you installed from hard disk, it will be into the BIN directory of your share.
So type:

Code:

cd share/bin

You must see this:

Code:

/opt/sybhttpd/localhost.drives/HARD_DISK/bin #

Then to edit the file you want, you have to know where he is and his pathname.
If you have all, just type:

Code:

./busybox26 vi /pathname/filename

vi is a linux editor choosen by busybox26 too. It's not very easy to use it, so here you could find some information about it:

HowTo use vi editor:

Quote:There is 3 ways.
* The normal mode: this is the way you are when you open a file. It's useful to type vi commands
* The insert mode: This way is useful to insert caracter inside the document. To use the insert mode, just press INSERT on your keyboard or press "i" if you don't have.
* The replace mode: This mode is useful to replace the existing text by the text you write. Just press again INSERT or "i" to go to insert mode and then replace mode.
To come back to normal mode press ESCape

Some useful commands:

:q Quit the editor without saving anything
:q! Force the editor to quit without saving (even if you already have change the document)
:wq Save your document and quit the editor
:filenom Save the document with the specified name
ZZ (two CAPITAL letters 'z') -> Save and quit (thank you to josiv)

Edit commands


x Delete the caracter under the cursor
dd Delete all the line under the cursor
dxd Delete x lines from the line under the cursor
nx Delete n caracters from which one under the cursor

So now, you can use NZBGet and change your password easily, or what you want.

Regards,
Kasi

[lundman]

Pretty sure I made a "vi" symlink in "/opt/sybhttpd/localhost.drives/HARD_DISK/bin", so that "./vi" should just work too.

In addition to that, you can just run:

# export PATH=$PATH:/opt/sybhttpd/localhost.drives/HARD_DISK/bin

Then you can "vi" anywhere.

[Kasimodo]

(08-27-2008 03:06 AM)lundman Wrote:  Pretty sure I made a "vi" symlink in "/opt/sybhttpd/localhost.drives/HARD_DISK/bin", so that "./vi" should just work too.

It doesn't seem to work for me.
For example:

Code:

/ # ./vi /mnt/syb8634/nzbgetweb/settings.php5  
/bin/sh: ./vi: not found
/ #

[Josiv]

Kasimodo, just do:
cp /opt/sybhttpd/localhost.drives/HARD_DISK/bin/vi /bin
(it will work till next restart)

Also usefull (exit from insert mode):
ZZ (two CAPITAL letters 'z') -> Save and quit

[Kasimodo]

(08-27-2008 08:12 PM)Josiv Wrote:  Kasimodo, just do:
cp /opt/sybhttpd/localhost.drives/HARD_DISK/bin/bi /bin
(it will work till next restart)

Thank you Josiv.