Shell In A Box

[bubblesnout]

http://code.google.com/p/shellinabox/

Has anybody tried to install this? I'm sure it's pretty straightforward, just not sure where to start. Could even be easy to package into a spk, not sure.

Any thoughts would be great!

[bubblesnout]

For anyone interested, I got this going.

Firstly install ipkg, then do the following:

Code: Select all

ipkg install gawk
ipkg install gcc
ipkg install make

Then extract the tar.gz package to anywhere. I threw it in /tmp/. I did it through Windows, but you could do it something like this (untested)

Code: Select all

cd /tmp
wget http://code.google.com/p/shellinabox/downloads/detail?name=shellinabox-2.10.tar.gz
tar xvfz shellinabox-2.10.tar.gz


Then go to the directory you extracted it to

Code: Select all

cd /tmp/shellinabox-2.10

Run the following commands to install it

Code: Select all

./configure
make
make install

All set up! To run it, type in

Code: Select all

shellinaboxd -b

You can create a startup script to run the above command so you don't have to manually run it whenever you restart your Synology device.
To do that, create a file in /usr/syno/etc/rc.d/ named S99zzsiab.sh containing something like this (untested)

Code: Select all

#!/bin/sh
if [ "start" = "\$1" ]; then
  shellinaboxd -b
elif [ "stop" = "\$1" ]; then
  killall shellinaboxd
elif [ "restart" = "\$1" ]; then
  \$0 stop
  \$0 start
elif [ "" = "\$1" ]; then
  echo "use start, stop or restart as arguments."
fi


Then make sure it's executable

Code: Select all

chmod +x S99zzsiab.sh

Once it's all ready to go, you can browse to http://DiskstationIPAddress:4200/ to access it.

[CoolRaoul]

For anyone interested, I got this going.

Code: Select all

#!/bin/sh
if [ "start" = "\$1" ]; then
  shellinaboxd -b
elif [ "stop" = "\$1" ]; then
  killall shellinaboxd
elif [ "restart" = "\$1" ]; then
  \$0 stop
  \$0 start
elif [ "" = "\$1" ]; then
  echo "use start, stop or restart as arguments."
fi


Could someone explain the purpose of the backslashes (as in "\$1") in that script?

[maxxfi]

Could someone explain the purpose of the backslashes (as in "\$1") in that script?

Hmm... Actually I think they are not needed, the script has to read the first parameter ($1), not compare string 'start' with string '$1'.

With backslash:

[root@Synology /tmp]# cat shellin.sh
#!/bin/sh

if [ "start" = "\$1" ]; then
echo "got start"
else
echo "got nothing"
fi
[root@Synology /tmp]# ./shellin.sh start
got nothing

while without backslash:

[root@Synology /tmp]# cat shellin.sh
#!/bin/sh

if [ "start" = "$1" ]; then
echo "got start"
else
echo "got nothing"
fi
[root@Synology /tmp]# ./shellin.sh start
got start