Januar 2012 - Grml-devel

submitting script for review: counting per process swap usage
by Mulyadi Santosa 31 Jan '12

31 Jan '12

Hi all This is my first contribution toward Grml. I have written a shell script that utilize Linux kernel provided statistic to account per process swap usage. Here it is: for a in /proc/[0-9]* do strings $a/cmdline; # output the name of the process echo ; grep Swap $a/smaps | awk '{ SUM += $2 } END { print SUM }'; # swap usage in kilobytes echo ----------------; done Thank you for your help and looking forward for opinions. I hope this little script could transform into "grml-" specific script. -- regards, Mulyadi Santosa Freelance Linux trainer and consultant blog: the-hydra.blogspot.com training: mulyaditraining.blogspot.com

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Could you please improve findiso boot parametre?
by adrian15 16 Jan '12

16 Jan '12

Hello, I am trying to include your findiso implementation into upstream debian-live. According to the bug report: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=656135 There is not too much work to be done: http://lists.debian.org/debian-live/2011/09/msg00067.html It would be nice if someone of you could take a look at it. Thank you very much! adrian15 -- Support free software. Donate to Super Grub Disk. Apoya el software libre. Dona a Super Grub Disk. http://www.supergrubdisk.org/donate/

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IRC meeting, 2012-01-12
by Michael Prokop 10 Jan '12

10 Jan '12

Hi, we'll have an Grml IRC meeting on wednesday, 11th of January 2012 on #grml (freenode), starting at 22:15 CET (vienna local time). If you're a Grml developer and won't make it to the meeting please let me know. If you aren't a Grml developer (yet? :)) but want to attend you're of course welcome to do so (I'd welcome a short notice ahead so we know how many participants we can expect). Please add your points for the meeting to the titanpad: https://grml.titanpad.com/2012-01-11-irc PS: We've a Google calendar providing the IRC meeting dates, if that's something you're interested in: https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=ndi6v0roi6elqbmca5q8m5pan0%40grou… regards, -mika-

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how about supported and unsupported grml flavors
by Walter Haidinger 07 Jan '12

07 Jan '12

Hi! Just something for the grml developers to think about: How about splitting grml into supported and unsupported flavors? The supported flavor would be the current one (grml-medium). This would let the grml developers focus on the grml core and lift them from the burden of testing all the packages (the main reason for dropping former grml-full, right?). The unsupported flavor would be the former 700MB grml-full, built from grml-live for convenient download but without further time-consuming testing by the grml devel team, i.e. grml-medium with lots of subsequent apt-get installs. Bug reports would be only accepted for supported grml, like OpenBSD that only accepts reports for GENERIC kernels or Linux for untainted. Yes, I know there is grml-live, but if people would just silently build their ISOs themselves instead of looking for downloads, the mailing-lists would have been quiet after the 2011.12 release, right? Now, what I'm certainly missing here is the amount of work required for the package selection of the larger grml flavors. I think that the supported/unsupported flavor approach would satisfy both the developers (less package testing, more time to work on grml internals) and the users (have a well-tested grml core as well as a rich package set by default). Regards, Walter

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Grml IRC meeting 2012-01-04 moved to 22:15
by Michael Prokop 04 Jan '12

04 Jan '12

Hi, sorry for short notice but on request the Grml IRC meeting today (2012-01-04) was moved from 21:00 to 22:15 CET. cu @ #grml on freenode regards, -mika-

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About the new grml direction
by Alexander Wirt 02 Jan '12

02 Jan '12

Hi folks, as announced on IRC some thoughts about the new grml direction. For me grml was always an all purpose live cd for text users and zsh addicts. I always knew I could just load a grml a I would have a more or less complete working environment afterwards. On the other hand I was able to just use grml-small if I needed a live cd just for booting and chrooting into the usual environment (i.e. for restoring the bootloader) or use -small as a base for my own customisations. Unfortunatly these assumptions aren't valid anymore. IMHO it is not a good idea to focus on rescue environments. GRML was known for two things: the great collection of well prepared text tools and their release names. I don't think focussing on release names as the only unique feature is a good idea. There are rescue systems like ten a penny. Also wasting 350 mb of space on a cd is a (imho) stupid thing. I want my old grml-small and -full back. And as it seems I am not alone. It is not my style to just whine. So what do I have to do to get my old grml back? Yeah my time is limited, but anyhow I have to try. I don't want to lose my beloved grml tool. Alex P.S. When was the decision of dropping all flavours but this 350 meg flavour done? I didn't mentioned it until the release.

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