busybox: applets included isn't listed (resolved)

Dennis German

https://www.busybox.net/downloads/BusyBox.html
says that
"If you invoke BusyBox with no arguments, it will provide you with a list of the applets that have been compiled into your BusyBox binary."

instead it reports:

busybox: applet not found

It would be great if it did.

PS I must have done something wrong. I plugged it in and it just worked! Yipiee.
Thanks for a GREAT system.

Luciano S.

Nice you got it! Could you please mark your request in the title as resolved ?

Dennis German

@Luciano-S. Sorry I didn't mean to imply that I got the info about busybox, rather the onion works.

Still don't know what's included in busybox!

György Farkas

On my Omega2+ 0.1.8 (b145)

BusyBox Version: 1.25.1-2
Currently defined applets:

[ [[ ash awk basename brctl bunzip2 bzcat cat chgrp chmod chown chroot clear cmp cp cron crond crontab cut date dd df dirname dmesg du echo egrep env expr false fgrep find free fsync grep gunzip gzip halt head hexdump hwclock id ifconfig ip kill killall less ln lock logger login ls md5sum mkdir mkfifo mknod mkswap mktemp mount mv nc netmsg netstat nice nslookup ntpd ntpd-hotplug passwd pgrep pidof ping ping6 pivot_root poweroff printf ps pwd readlink reboot reset rm rmdir route sed seq sh sha256sum sleep sort start-stop-daemon strings switch_root sync sysctl sysntpd tail tar tee test time top touch tr traceroute traceroute6 true udhcpc umount uname uniq uptime vi wc which xargs yes zcat

opkg is a useful command.
opkg info busybox
opkg files busybox

Here you are a usage example and an edited list of BB's files:

root@Omega-5BE1:~# opkg info busybox
Package: busybox
Version: 1.25.1-2
Depends: libc
Status: install user installed
Section: base
Essential: yes
Architecture: mipsel_24kc
Size: 205223
Filename: busybox_1.25.1-2_mipsel_24kc.ipk
Description: The Swiss Army Knife of embedded Linux.
 It slices, it dices, it makes Julian Fries.
Installed-Time: 1484219717

root@Omega-5BE1:~# opkg files busybox | sed 's|/usr||; s|/sbin/||; s|/bin/||; s|/etc/init.d/||; /^busybox/d' | sort
Package busybox (1.25.1-2) is installed on root and has the following files:
[
[[
ash
awk
basename
brctl
bunzip2
bzcat
cat
chgrp
chmod
chown
chroot
clear
cmp
cp
cron
crond
crontab
cut
date
dd
df
dirname
dmesg
du
echo
egrep
env
expr
false
fgrep
find
free
fsync
grep
gunzip
gzip
halt
head
hexdump
hwclock
id
ifconfig
ip
kill
killall
less
ln
lock
logger
login
ls
md5sum
mkdir
mkfifo
mknod
mkswap
mktemp
mount
mv
nc
netmsg
netstat
nice
nslookup
ntpd
ntpd-hotplug
passwd
pgrep
pidof
ping
ping6
pivot_root
poweroff
printf
ps
pwd
readlink
reboot
reset
rm
rmdir
route
sed
seq
sh
sha256sum
sleep
sort
start-stop-daemon
strings
switch_root
sync
sysctl
sysntpd
tail
tar
tee
test
time
top
touch
tr
traceroute
traceroute6
true
udhcpc
umount
uname
uniq
uptime
vi
wc
which
xargs
yes
zcat

Dennis German

@György-Farkas Thanks for your help. Why doesn't busybox list the apps?

György Farkas

@Dennis-German said in busybox: applets included isn't listed (resolved):

https://www.busybox.net/downloads/BusyBox.html

DESCRIPTION
BusyBox is extremely configurable. This allows you to include only the components you need, thereby reducing binary size.

Please read also https://www.busybox.net/FAQ.html how to configure BB if you want to make a "well configured" busybox binary from source.

Here you are a quick help if you really can't live without a fully featured BB

cd ~
wget https://www.busybox.net/downloads/binaries/1.26.2-defconfig-multiarch/busybox-mipsel
ls -l
chmod +x busybox-mipsel
ls -l
./busybox-mipsel

And an example:
stat
./busybox-mipsel stat
./busybox-mipsel stat /bin/busybox
./busybox-mipsel stat busybox-mipsel

root@Omega-5BE1:~# cd ~
root@Omega-5BE1:~# wget https://www.busybox.net/downloads/binaries/1.26.2-defconfig-multiarch/busybox-mipsel
--2017-01-28 10:52:56--  https://www.busybox.net/downloads/binaries/1.26.2-defconfig-multiarch/busybox-mipsel
Resolving www.busybox.net... 140.211.167.122
Connecting to www.busybox.net|140.211.167.122|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 1498448 (1.4M)
Saving to: 'busybox-mipsel'

busybox-mipsel                         100%[=========================================================================>]   1.43M   147KB/s    in 13s     

2017-01-28 10:53:11 (110 KB/s) - 'busybox-mipsel' saved [1498448/1498448]

root@Omega-5BE1:~# ls -l
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       1498448 Jan 11 10:38 busybox-mipsel
root@Omega-5BE1:~# chmod +x busybox-mipsel
root@Omega-5BE1:~# ls -l
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       1498448 Jan 11 10:38 busybox-mipsel
root@Omega-5BE1:~# ./busybox-mipsel
BusyBox v1.26.2 (2017-01-10 16:07:35 UTC) multi-call binary.
BusyBox is copyrighted by many authors between 1998-2015.
Licensed under GPLv2. See source distribution for detailed
copyright notices.

Usage: busybox [function [arguments]...]
   or: busybox --list[-full]
   or: busybox --install [-s] [DIR]
   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:
	[, [[, acpid, add-shell, addgroup, adduser, adjtimex, arp, arping, ash, awk, base64, basename, beep, blkdiscard, blkid, blockdev, bootchartd,
	brctl, bunzip2, bzcat, bzip2, cal, cat, catv, chat, chattr, chgrp, chmod, chown, chpasswd, chpst, chroot, chrt, chvt, cksum, clear, cmp, comm,
	conspy, cp, cpio, crond, crontab, cryptpw, cttyhack, cut, date, dc, dd, deallocvt, delgroup, deluser, depmod, devmem, df, dhcprelay, diff,
	dirname, dmesg, dnsd, dnsdomainname, dos2unix, dpkg, dpkg-deb, du, dumpkmap, dumpleases, echo, ed, egrep, eject, env, envdir, envuidgid,
	ether-wake, expand, expr, fakeidentd, false, fatattr, fbset, fbsplash, fdflush, fdformat, fdisk, fgconsole, fgrep, find, findfs, flock, fold,
	free, freeramdisk, fsck, fsck.minix, fstrim, fsync, ftpd, ftpget, ftpput, fuser, getopt, getty, grep, groups, gunzip, gzip, halt, hd, hdparm,
	head, hexdump, hostid, hostname, httpd, hush, hwclock, i2cdetect, i2cdump, i2cget, i2cset, id, ifconfig, ifdown, ifenslave, ifplugd, ifup,
	inetd, init, insmod, install, ionice, iostat, ip, ipaddr, ipcalc, ipcrm, ipcs, iplink, ipneigh, iproute, iprule, iptunnel, kbd_mode, kill,
	killall, killall5, klogd, less, linux32, linux64, linuxrc, ln, loadfont, loadkmap, logger, login, logname, logread, losetup, lpd, lpq, lpr, ls,
	lsattr, lsmod, lsof, lspci, lsusb, lzcat, lzma, lzop, lzopcat, makedevs, makemime, man, md5sum, mdev, mesg, microcom, mkdir, mkdosfs, mke2fs,
	mkfifo, mkfs.ext2, mkfs.minix, mkfs.vfat, mknod, mkpasswd, mkswap, mktemp, modinfo, modprobe, more, mount, mountpoint, mpstat, mt, mv, nameif,
	nanddump, nandwrite, nbd-client, nc, netstat, nice, nmeter, nohup, nsenter, nslookup, ntpd, od, openvt, passwd, patch, pgrep, pidof, ping,
	ping6, pipe_progress, pivot_root, pkill, pmap, popmaildir, poweroff, powertop, printenv, printf, ps, pscan, pstree, pwd, pwdx, raidautorun,
	rdate, rdev, readahead, readlink, readprofile, realpath, reboot, reformime, remove-shell, renice, reset, resize, rev, rm, rmdir, rmmod, route,
	rpm, rpm2cpio, rtcwake, run-parts, runsv, runsvdir, rx, script, scriptreplay, sed, sendmail, seq, setarch, setconsole, setfont, setkeycodes,
	setlogcons, setserial, setsid, setuidgid, sh, sha1sum, sha256sum, sha3sum, sha512sum, showkey, shuf, slattach, sleep, smemcap, softlimit, sort,
	split, start-stop-daemon, stat, strings, stty, su, sulogin, sum, sv, svc, svlogd, swapoff, swapon, switch_root, sync, sysctl, syslogd, tac,
	tail, tar, tcpsvd, tee, telnet, telnetd, test, tftp, tftpd, time, timeout, top, touch, tr, traceroute, traceroute6, true, truncate, tty,
	ttysize, tunctl, ubiattach, ubidetach, ubimkvol, ubirename, ubirmvol, ubirsvol, ubiupdatevol, udhcpc, udhcpd, udpsvd, uevent, umount, uname,
	unexpand, uniq, unix2dos, unlink, unlzma, unlzop, unshare, unxz, unzip, uptime, usleep, uudecode, uuencode, vconfig, vi, vlock, volname, watch,
	watchdog, wc, wget, which, whoami, whois, xargs, xz, xzcat, yes, zcat, zcip
root@Omega-5BE1:~# stat
-ash: stat: not found
root@Omega-5BE1:~# ./busybox-mipsel stat
BusyBox v1.26.2 (2017-01-10 16:07:35 UTC) multi-call binary.

Usage: stat [OPTIONS] FILE...

Display file (default) or filesystem status

	-c FMT	Use the specified format
	-f	Display filesystem status
	-L	Follow links
	-t	Terse display

FMT sequences for files:
 %a	Access rights in octal
 %A	Access rights in human readable form
 %b	Number of blocks allocated (see %B)
 %B	Size in bytes of each block reported by %b
 %d	Device number in decimal
 %D	Device number in hex
 %f	Raw mode in hex
 %F	File type
 %g	Group ID
 %G	Group name
 %h	Number of hard links
 %i	Inode number
 %n	File name
 %N	File name, with -> TARGET if symlink
 %o	I/O block size
 %s	Total size in bytes
 %t	Major device type in hex
 %T	Minor device type in hex
 %u	User ID
 %U	User name
 %x	Time of last access
 %X	Time of last access as seconds since Epoch
 %y	Time of last modification
 %Y	Time of last modification as seconds since Epoch
 %z	Time of last change
 %Z	Time of last change as seconds since Epoch

FMT sequences for file systems:
 %a	Free blocks available to non-superuser
 %b	Total data blocks
 %c	Total file nodes
 %d	Free file nodes
 %f	Free blocks
 %i	File System ID in hex
 %l	Maximum length of filenames
 %n	File name
 %s	Block size (for faster transfer)
 %S	Fundamental block size (for block counts)
 %t	Type in hex
 %T	Type in human readable form
root@Omega-5BE1:~# ./busybox-mipsel stat /bin/busybox
  File: /bin/busybox
  Size: 304408    	Blocks: 595        IO Block: 1024   regular file
Device: 1f05h/7941d	Inode: 409         Links: 1
Access: (0755/-rwxr-xr-x)  Uid: (    0/    root)   Gid: (    0/    root)
Access: 2017-01-16 20:40:14.000000000
Modify: 2017-01-16 20:40:14.000000000
Change: 2017-01-16 20:40:14.000000000

root@Omega-5BE1:~# ./busybox-mipsel stat busybox-mipsel
  File: busybox-mipsel
  Size: 1498448   	Blocks: 2927       IO Block: 4096   regular file
Device: 1f06h/7942d	Inode: 1616        Links: 1
Access: (0755/-rwxr-xr-x)  Uid: (    0/    root)   Gid: (    0/    root)
Access: 2017-01-28 10:53:11.000000000
Modify: 2017-01-11 10:38:42.000000000
Change: 2017-01-28 10:53:31.000000000

Happy BusyBoxing!

Dennis German

@György-Farkas Thank you very much

man hunter

hey guys i have sony z1s and i installed busybox pro version 50 and when i run the dspoit shows error killall binary not found kindly help me out

Luciano S.

@man-hunter said in busybox: applets included isn't listed (resolved):

hey guys i have sony z1s and i installed busybox pro version 50 and when i run the dspoit shows error killall binary not found kindly help me out

Sorry asking, what has your Sony z1s to do with the onion omega1/2 or2+ ?
Are you in the correct community? Or did I miss out something

Luciano S.

@György-Farkas said in busybox: applets included isn't listed (resolved):

Here you are a quick help if you really can't live without a full featured BB

 cd ~
 wget https://www.busybox.net/downloads/binaries/1.26.2-defconfig-multiarch/busybox-mipsel
 ls -l
 chmod +x busybox-mipsel
 ls -l
 ./busybox-mipsel

As @Dennis-German i also had this incomplete busybox installation with the message busybox: applet not found

I replaced /bin/busybox with the -mipsel one and made:
busybox --install [-s] [/bin]

Now i have peace and a full working BB.

@Dennis-German i guess onion.io made this lousy images on a Friday night or Monday morning early

Luciano S.

@Dennis-German said in busybox: applets included isn't listed (resolved):

busybox: applet not found
It would be great if it did.

Coming back 2 this question ...

why do we have now to fiddle around with Busybox before we can use it?

I would say in the Firmware it misses the command help and install ... then we probably could fix it ?!

Or does this come fom LEDE already this way?