Hi, I ran across a thread on here given me detailed instructions on how to install preinit, telnetd, and empacman. I followed them and telnet and empacman work as long as I get a shell prompt with a serial connection first and execute them. Could someone possibly point me to a thread that may show me how to use preinit to execute telnet on AC power and empacman on both AC and DC.. Thanks!

Use Hijack instead.

Eg. in config.ini, do something similar to this:

;@AC;@EXEC_ONCE /telnetd
;@EXEC_ONCE /empacman

Ok ill give that a shot, I already had hijack on im just really new to this and trying to take in all that this lil baby can do..

Ok, I added those lines in the config.ini from emplode under the [hijack] section, but doesnt seem to have started them, Did I put them in the wrong section? I even unpluged and pluged back in according to the FAQ about editing the config.ini. Thanks!

You'll also have to use FTP to install and chmod 0755 the telnetd and pacman executables, and change the commands I posted to include the correct FULL pathname for whereever you placed them.

Cheers

Ok, I know they are chmodded cause I can run them from a serial connection in hyper terminal and they run fine.. I know i have to change the empacmans path its in /programs0 but telnetd is able to be run anywhere so i got to track down where i copied it.. Thank you for taking the time to help me with this.

Mmm.. I wonder.. at the point when EXEC_ONCE is run, the ethernet port it not yet fully configured. Shouldn't matter much, but maybe it does?

You can test the EXACT same code that EXEC_ONCE uses by using the FTP server in Hijack: the SITE EXEC xxxxxx command. See if that works for you or not.

cheers

Ok great! I got empacman working fine on boot, however telnetd isnt, i found it in /bin so i changed the line to:

;@AC;@EXEC_ONCE /bin/telnetd

and according to the force ac/dc menu in hijack its booted into AC mode but i am unable to telnet in. I opened a serial connection before i unpluged and repluged it and i see the empeg being executed but nothing about telnetd no errors nothing..

Thanks for your help! I just removed ;@AC and left ;@EXEC_ONCE /bin/telnetd and rebooted and it works. I guess some reason it didnt like the AC part. Thank you for your help..

Ahh.. my fault. There needs to be exactly one blank space immediately after the ;@AC part.

Cheers

Ahh! Ok thank you!