Topic: Need help with basics of debugchumby, SSH, etc please?
I read here about a lot of great hacks and solutions to problems, but I hate to admit it flies above me. I haven't done any kind of programming in over 30 years. So please help with the basics, if someone can. I could really use a "walkthrough" of a couple of basics.
First, I read everything starts with the debugchumby script on the root drive of a USB drive, and I think I know how to create one with a text editor. But what is the actual script? Is there more than one debugchumby script for different purposes? Is there anyplace on these forums I could download the script? (I just started trying to make non-.txt files, still a little iffy on that.) I know a couple of great hacks/solutions are zip files ready to go on a USB drive. But I don't understand the foundation that needs to come first, ie debugchumby.
I've tried reading around the web, but I don't understand about "SSH"ing things into the Chumby. I know how to push the button to SSH, but I don't know what to do next. What I need was pretty much written by Deb in an old post from 2010:
First, I would like to thank steelpaw for trying to help me understand the first basic steps to putting hack codes into my Chumby.
I would also like to ask the Chumby Forum techies to write a stickied post containing the necessary baby steps from A to Z for those of us that are not coders so that, if we wish, we may attempt some of the hacks talked about on these forums.
It is all very well saying SSH in to do this or that, but if there is no information to tell us EXACTLY where to go and how/what to do once we have actually pressed the SSH 'button' then it is all a moot point.
For example I would like to try the autoreboot hack by zurk, but I simply have no idea where it goes or how.
Thanks
I can't find any such "sticky" on the forum or the wiki, so I hope someone has the time to help. Thanks.