Put your device in 'aeroplane' mode (e.g. where no trace of signal leaves it) by turning off Wi-Fi and blue-tooth.

sudo sv stop wpa_supplicant bluetoothd

Find your device's name with ip a. If unsure, try this:

name=$(ip a | grep -Eo 'wlp\w{3}')

echo $name

Then set that device down:

sudo ip link set $name down

To automatically stick the logo onto your background, do these commands in the directory.

Get the void linux logo from wikipedia

1wget https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/02/Void_Linux_logo.svg/256px-Void_Linux_logo.svg.png?20170131170632

Rename it, and resize it (the standard size is too small for …

Monitor all processes:

1extrace

Monitor one process:

1extrace ls

Monitor a script:

1./script.sh | extrace

Jenkins on Void

Jenkins is janky.

Start

Start the service file.

1sudo ln -s /etc/sv/jenkins /var/service
2sudo sv start jenkins

Then visit the web interface with $BROWSER localhost:8080.

If it's not working, try running the command from the run file the first time:

1chpst -u jenkins java -jar /opt/jenkins/jenkins.war …

List Services

All possible services are in:

1ls /etc/sv

The computer only uses those in /var/service, so symbolic links are made to start and stop services.

1ls /var/service

Start Services

Enable the sshd service, so that ssh will work every time you boot up:

1sudo ln -s /etc/sv/sshd /var/service

Then start the …

Make the autologin service:

1cp -R /etc/sv/agetty-tty1 /etc/sv/agetty-autologin-tty1

 1if [ -x /sbin/agetty -o -x /bin/agetty ]; then
 2        # util-linux specific settings
 3        if [ "${tty}" = "tty1" ]; then
 4                GETTY_ARGS="--noclear"
 5        fi  
 6fi
 7
 8GETTY_ARGS= …

Updates

Update all packages with

1sudo xbps-install -Su

See xbps for more.

Remove old packages

Void keeps every version of everything you install, so you can roll back to them. Remove old packages with:

1sudo xbps-remove -O

vkpurge

Old Void kernels are left on the boot partition. List them with:

1vkpurge list

Remove …

Check the current locales:

1locale -a

Add the languages you want by editing /etc/default/libc-locales, and uncommenting your choice:

1#en_DK.UTF-8 UTF-8  
2#en_DK ISO-8859-1  
3en_GB.UTF-8 UTF-8  
4en_GB ISO-8859-1  
5#en_HK.UTF-8 UTF-8  
6#en_HK ISO-8859-1  

Now you can generate what you need for those languages. …

Search

Look for cowsay in the repository:

1xbps-query --repository --search cowsay

Short version:

1xbps-query -Rs cowsay

Search with regex:

1xbps-query --regex -Rs 'cow(s)?\w'

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