Tools

Busybox

• Home page : ​http://www.busybox.net

There are certain differences between the normal Linux commands and those provided by BusyBox. This also needs to be taken in account by mondo.

• Busybox ps doesn't take options (solved in rev [792])
• Output format for Busybox ps and normal ps auxww are different (especially process ID and user are inverted):

  #/usr/lib/mindi/rootfs/bin/busybox ps
    PID  Uid     VmSize Stat Command
  [...]
   2105 root            SW< [ac97/0]
   2113 haldaemo   7336 S   hald
   2114 root       1200 S   hald-runner
   2234 haldaemo    820 S   /usr/lib/hald-addon-keyboard
   2284 root        444 S   /sbin/ifplugd -b -i eth0
   2299 haldaemo    804 S   /usr/lib/hald-addon-acpi
   2327 root        908 S   /usr/lib/hald-addon-storage
   2330 root        840 S   /usr/lib/hald-addon-storage
   2401 root       5776 S   python ./hpssd.py
   2575 rpc         412 S   portmap
   2617 root      33432 S   pcscd
  # ps auxww 
  USER       PID %CPU %MEM    VSZ   RSS TTY      STAT START   TIME COMMAND
  [...]
  root      2105  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        S<   Oct29   0:00 [ac97/0]
  88        2113  0.0  0.4   9540  7336 ?        Ss   Oct29   0:02 hald
  root      2114  0.0  0.0   3200  1200 ?        S    Oct29   0:00 hald-runner
  88        2234  0.0  0.0   2556   820 ?        S    Oct29   0:00 /usr/lib/hald-addon-keyboard
  root      2284  0.0  0.0   1596   444 ?        Ss   Oct29   0:00 /sbin/ifplugd -b -i eth0
  88        2299  0.0  0.0   2560   804 ?        S    Oct29   0:00 /usr/lib/hald-addon-acpi
  root      2327  0.0  0.0   2136   908 ?        S    Oct29   0:01 /usr/lib/hald-addon-storage
  root      2330  0.0  0.0   2140   840 ?        S    Oct29   0:09 /usr/lib/hald-addon-storage
  root      2401  0.0  0.3  10896  5776 ?        S    Oct29   0:01 python ./hpssd.py
  rpc       2575  0.0  0.0   1864   412 ?        Ss   Oct29   0:00 portmap
  root      2617  0.0  2.1  34620 33432 ?        Ss   Oct29   0:00 pcscd
  

• Busybox grep doesn't support the -w option (fixed in rev [909])

  ./mondo/src/mondorestore/mondo-rstr-tools.c:
          "mount | grep -w %s | tail -n1 | cut -d' ' -f3",
  ./mondo/src/common/libmondo-devices.c:  sprintf(tmp, "%s | grep -w \"%s\" > /dev/null 2> /dev/null",
  ./mondo/src/common/libmondo-tools.c:            sprintf(command, "mount | grep -w %s | tail -n1 | cut -d' ' -f3",
  ./mondo/src/common/libmondo-tools.c:            ("mount | grep -w vfat | grep -vE \"/dev/fd|nexdisk\"", 0)
  ./mondo/src/common/libmondo-tools.c:            ("mount | grep -w dos | grep -vE \"/dev/fd|nexdisk\"", 0)) {
  ./mondo/src/common/libmondo-tools.c:               "grep -v \":\" /etc/fstab | grep -vx \"#.*\" | grep -w \"/boot\" | tr -s ' ' '\t' | cut -f1 | head -n1");
  ./mondo/src/common/libmondo-tools.c:                    sprintf(command, "mount| grep -w \"%s\"", tmp);
  ./mondo/src/common/libmondo-tools.c:               ("ps ax | grep -w magicdev |grep -v grep | tr -s '\t' ' '| cut -d' ' -f6-99"));
  

• Busybox grep doesn't support the -x option (fixed in rev [910])

QEmu

• Home page : ​http://www.qemu.org

QEmu is used in the mondorescue project to generate all the packages for the numerous distributions supported (more than 20).

Docbook

• Home page : ​http://www.docbook.org

DocBook is used in the mondorescue project to generate all the documentation in various formats.

Subversion

• Home page : ​http://subversion.tigris.org

Subversion is used in the mondorescue project as our Configuration Management System.

Trac

• Home page : ​http://trac.edgewall.org/
• Complementary tools : ​http://www.trac-hacks.org/

Trac is used in the mondorescue project to keep track of bugs, to provide a wiki, and an interface to subversion.

Valgrind

• Home page : ​http://valgrind.org

Valgrind is partly used to detect memory management errors and generate call graphs in Mondorescue's C code.

Coverity

• OSCON conf: ​http://scan.coverity.com/oscon/

SSH server

Busybox doesn't provide an SSH server - Look at DropBear ​http://matt.ucc.asn.au/dropbear/dropbear.html