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01:11.43enginuitorHELP!!
01:11.51kergothWHY?
01:11.55kergoth:P
01:12.06enginuitorI'm using OZ 3.5.1... and I restarted opie... and now a ton of crap is gone from the todo list
01:12.22enginuitorLike it restored from about 6 hours ago
01:12.26kergothokay...
01:12.40kergoth#opie
01:14.46enginuitordead, as always...
01:15.12kergoth$HOME/Applications or something like that.
01:15.17kergothwhich is likely in flash.
01:15.28kergothso i dont see that behind lost unless the todo app didnt write it to disk at all
01:15.36kergothhence the -> #opie thing
01:16.10enginuitorHmm, perhaps it never sync'd?
01:16.26enginuitorBut it's not like I rebooted
01:16.32kergothjffs2 is journaling.  data is rarely if ever lost, even on power loss.
01:16.41kergothi find it *highly* unlikely that the problem is there.
01:17.01enginuitorGreat... well, if I can't trust the opie todolist app, I'm kinda out of options
01:17.08kergothvim!
01:17.08kergoth:D
01:17.18enginuitorkergoth: vi is hell on the Z...
01:17.29kergothwhat do you mean?
01:17.36enginuitorkergoth: The vi that comes with OE isn't set up right for the Z's keyboard
01:17.36kergothi used vim for my todo list on my Z for like a month
01:17.41kergothcancel is escape
01:17.44kergothdunno what the problem is
01:17.51enginuitorkergoth: the arrows don't work.
01:17.58kergothnot a vi problem.
01:18.05kergothgeneral keyboard issue
01:18.18enginuitorkergoth: Perhaps opie-embeddedkonsole is the problem?
01:18.20kergothkeyboard handling in opie is a mess.
01:18.23kergoths/opie/qte/
01:19.09enginuitorPerhaps opie-console would have worked fine, but I replaced it with opie-embeddedkonsole because konsole is 5 times better
01:19.21enginuitorOh, wait...
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01:19.33enginuitorMaybe it was when I was ssh'd into my Fedora machine...
01:19.58enginuitorI'm not actually sure if I've ever tried vi locally on the Z using the hardware KB...
01:19.59enginuitorbrb
01:20.40enginuitorHmm, arrows work OK
01:20.59enginuitorBut backspace prints ^? and del makes the background flash
01:21.03enginuitor(this is in insert mode)
01:21.09enginuitorperhaps this is a different version of vi?
01:21.19enginuitorMust I exit insert mode to delete things?
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01:22.25enginuitorOookay... outside of insert mode, backspace moves the cursor to the left, and del not only makes the screen flash, but turns the following to characters to uppercase...
01:22.32enginuitorAnd prints an error
01:22.45enginuitorWow
01:22.50enginuitorThat's a lot of functionality for one key
01:25.11enginuitorDo cross-device soft links expire permanently when the device is unmounted?
01:25.25enginuitor'cause a lot of my symlinks disappear regularly
01:38.41kergothsymlinks dont "expire"
01:39.02kergothbut the application may see that its a dead link, and that its unable to write its content out,a nd act appropriately
01:39.05kergothdont know
01:39.09enginuitorkergoth: That's what I thought...
01:39.47enginuitorkergoth: hmm, well the link I'm having trouble with is a link from a library in the /mnt/card/usr/lib directory to the /usr/lib directory
01:40.00enginuitorEvery time I reboot I have to relink it
01:40.10enginuitorActually, ipkg-link mount /mnt/card works fine
01:40.20kergothdunno what to tell you.
01:40.22enginuitorSo I made an Opie-SH script to do it conveniently
01:40.23kergothsymlinks dont remove themselves.
01:40.34enginuitorkergoth: all right
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01:46.34enginuitorHmm, where's the rc.local equivalent in OpenZaurus?
01:46.48enginuitorI want to make some crap happen on boot
01:46.57enginuitors/on/after/
01:47.14kergoththere is no rc.local.  rc.local encourages people to drop shit there instead of understanding how the boot process works.
01:47.31enginuitorkergoth: Damn, I had a feeling something like that was comin
01:47.35enginuitorcoming*
01:47.41kergothcreate a startup script, put it in init.d, and symlink it into the rcX.d dir for the runlevel you want it started in
01:49.23enginuitoris the # pidfile:... line necessary?
01:49.44kergoth?
01:49.51kergothno idea what that is.
01:49.59kergothit certainly isnt used by any of our boot stuff
01:50.08kergothstoring metadata in comments is a redhatism
01:50.16enginuitorok
01:50.20enginuitorSo I'll leave it out
01:50.32enginuitorIt was in the /etc/init.d/sd file...
01:50.35enginuitorI'll check some others
01:51.00kergothall you need is commands to run, in a case statement to handle the whole "start" vs "stop" thing
01:51.10enginuitorall right
01:51.29enginuitorjeez, how does one delete a line in vi?
01:51.33kergotheven that isnt required, if you're only symlinking it as S##whatever, (start) and arent having it get run on shutdown (K##whatever)
01:51.36kergothdd
01:51.38enginuitorI know it's a one-key command...
01:51.58enginuitorkergoth: oh
01:52.09enginuitorkergoth: I thought there was a key that would delete the current line
01:52.15kergothi just told you it.
01:52.18kergothdd removes the current line
01:52.27enginuitorkergoth:   ':dd' or just press D twice?
01:52.31kergothif you want to erase teh contents of the current line without removing the line itself, thats different.
01:52.37kergothjust dd.
01:52.40enginuitorok