adding commands to bootlocal.sh

[Raven72]

Hi All,

New to the forum and Tiny Core LInux (but have experience with Puppy Linux)

I would like to add simple commands to bootlocal.sh in the /opt/ folder such as  cd /  .... mount mnt/sda1 .... vi some.txt (to automatically open a text file in vi) and other simple shell comands

My problem is that bootlocal.sh is write protected and I have been unable to change the permission with chmod

I have looked at the FAQ and are more confused than when I started

any assistance would be appriciated

Cheers,
Matt

[Rich]

Hi Raven72
Did you try:

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sudo chown tc:staff /opt/bootlocal.sh
sudo chmod 775 /opt/bootlocal.sh

[Raven72]

thank you this worked for saving the changes to bootlocal.sh - the only issue now is when I re-boot the changes are not there and bootlocal.sh has gone back to it's 'default' file

[Rich]

Hi Raven72
Sounds like you didn't run a backup. Make your changes again, then run:

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filetool.sh -bvI would also suggest you take an hour to read this really fine book:
http://tinycorelinux.net/book.html

[Raven72]

and where is filetool.sh located?

[Rich]

Hi Raven72
filetool.sh  is the script that performs your backup and is located in  /usr/bin/.

[Raven72]

does sda1 need to be mounted with a directory to save the changes to?

I got filetool.sh -b to work (without v) - but on reboot the changes were not saved - is there any particular shutdown procedure I need to perform, or just a ctrl-alt-del reboot is fine (I am working command line only without a GUI) ?

[Rich]

Hi Raven72

... is there any particular shutdown procedure I need to perform ...

You can run:

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exitcheck.sh rebootor

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exitcheck.sh shutdown
What is the result for this command:

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showbootcodes

[Raven72]

still will not save the changes for reboot

showbootcodes returns:-

initrd=ubninit loglevel=3 BOOT_IMAGE=/ubnkern


on the bootup screen there are 3 choices:-

default
microcore
mc


is there any diffrence between them as far as saving the bootlocal.sh for reboot?

[Raven72]

Success!!!!!

I needed the bootcodes "waitusb=5  tce=sda1" for the USB drive to be ready to save/load things, i think - at any rate, I think i understand how everything is working together


Now, I was wondering if lines can be added to bootlocal.sh like:-

cd /
cd bin
vi

in order to start vi at bootup, kind of like an MS DOS autoexec.bat file?

[Juanito]

If you want bootlocal to run a script, it is perhaps better to call a separate script, for example:

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$ cat /opt/bootlocal.sh
~/myscript.sh..be aware that bootlocal runs as root.

[jazzbiker]

I think the good variant to run user startup progs as $USER ( probably tc) is to add commands to "~/.profile".

[curaga]

Bootlocal is backgrounded, so you absolutely don't want to start an editor like vi there.