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List:       busybox
Subject:    Re: [BusyBox] How to update busybox on a running system ?
From:       Erik Andersen <andersen () codepoet ! org>
Date:       2002-10-28 10:20:05
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On Mon Oct 28, 2002 at 05:55:43PM +0100, Steven Scholz wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I wonder if someone updates busybox while the system is running using some file
> transfer!?
> 
> A simple ftp upload fails on my machine with "Can't open file: text file is
> busy"

You want to do something like this:

#!/bin/sh
cd /bin
wget -O busybox.bin http://some.system.somewhere/busybox
chmod a+x busybox.bin
./busybox.bin mv busybox bb
./bb mv busybox.bin busybox
rm ./bb

 -Erik

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