Thanks Paul, that's all useful information. I've noticed that some of these commands that don't seem to work without specifying a path seem to be exactly the same versions in the default shell and in the specific binary location, whereas some seem to be different. For instance, awk --help reports 'BusyBox v1.31.1 (2020-12-18 22:25:41 EST)' when called as either awk or /usr/bin/awk, whereas '/bin/echo --help' reports 'BusyBox v1.31.1 (2020-12-18 22:25:41 EST)' but without the path it simply echoes '--help'. So I'm curious where the separate executables come from. Are some simply links to the busybox versions, whereas others are standalone binaries?
I've reverted to the original script on my Pi3A+, where the start-stop-daemon apparently won't 'stop' the process, but it does 'start' it. But I'm getting very confused and will probably call it a day very soon. I'm getting confused because: 1) The script doesn't call the start-stop-daemon itself - it calls the init.d script which uses the start-stop-daemon appropriately. 2) When I call the init.d script to 'stop' squeezelite, the process doesn't actually get killed 3) When I call the init.d script to 'restart' squeezelite, the old process gets killed and a new one is started. The odd thing about this is that to do a 'restart', the init.d script simply asks the daemon to do a 'stop' followed by a 'start'. So why does 'stop' on its own not work, whereas 'stop' followed by 'start' does? I need to double check this behaviour again, Pi3A+ versus Pi4B, because it doesn't make sense. I've tried loading bash and forcing my script to run under bash, as well as forcing the init.d script to run under bash, but neither seem to make the start-stop-daemon successfully stop squeezelite. The start-stop-daemon seems to be part of busybox. It would be interesting I think to look at the source code to try and understand what it actually does. And maybe I should try making the init.d script use /sbin/start-stop-daemon instead of the default version, but I note that both versions report 'BusyBox v1.31.1 (2020-12-18 22:25:41 EST)'. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ chill's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10839 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=113661 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/unix
