November 2006 - Grml - lists.mur.at

Code2blog: Source-highlight frontend
by T 16 Nov '06

16 Nov '06

Hi Do you blog a lot? Do you sometimes include code in you blog? Do you want that your code show up colorfully in you blog? then use Code2blog, the source-highlight frontend! It can be used to highlight on-the-fly a program so that the formatted form (HTML) can be easily copied and then pasted in your blog. This frontend is written using Python (version 4) and pyGTK. http://code.google.com/p/code2blog/ -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/

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xsel: Doesn't work correctly in a UTF-8 environment
by T 16 Nov '06

16 Nov '06

Hi I notice an outstanding bugs for xsel -- Doesn't work correctly in a UTF-8 environment. However, there is a patch for it: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=231413 ,----- | This adds UTF8 support without breaking things. New command-line option | (-u|--utf8) switches between XA_STRING and UTF8_STRING selection | targets. When UTF8_STRING is not supported by X-server, xsel falls back to | XA_STRING. | | Please note, this patch also fixes #203925 (manpage bug). `----- mika, would you be so kind to build a new version with the patch, since it is already 2 years and 283 days old? thanks PS. for mlist, If you don't use/know xsel, I highly recommend it. -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/

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Mixer
by Christoph Hartung 14 Nov '06

14 Nov '06

Morgen, sitz hier an einem Asus A6T, Grml Live CD 0.8 Funkenzutzler. Bitte das Mikro vom aumix bei zukünftigen Versionen auf Null setzen, auf der A6T Reihe gibt es böse Feedbacks zwischen Mikro und Lautsprecher, hat bei mir ein ganzes Einfamilienhaus aufgeweckt, bin nichtmal dazu gekommen, aumix aufzurufen bevor wer durch die Tür gehüpft kam ;) MFG Christoph

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Writing to Hard Drives from LiveCD
by Juergen Fiedler 14 Nov '06

14 Nov '06

I have observed something odd: When I write data to a mounted hard drive partition while running from the livecd, the amount of written data is subtracted from the free RAM, i.e., if I do a dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/hda1/tmp/testfile bs=1M count=512 with /dev/hda1 mounted on /mnt/hda1, I am losing 512M of my RAM; deleting the file frees up that RAM. After rebooting, the file is still there, but doesn't take up any RAM anymore. I think I may be missing something vitally important about how the unionfs is set up. Can anybody please tell me how I can write files to an HD without them taking up RAM, too? Any help would be much appreciated! Cheers, --j

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/etc/fstab and mounting USB drives
by Tom White 14 Nov '06

14 Nov '06

The latest rebuildfstab in my grml installed on hd has these entries: LABEL=MX320G /mnt/MX320G ntfs noauto,user,dev,suid,exec,ro,umask=000,uid=tom,gid=tom 0 0 # /dev/sda1 /dev/usb-sda1 /mnt/usb-sda1 auto user,noauto,nodev,noatime,nosuid,noexec,rw,uid=tom,gid=tom 0 0 Those are the same drive. mount /mnt/MX320G doesn't work; it complains about no LABEL=MX320G device. mount /mnt/usb-sda1 does work, but I don't like the "rw" on my ntfs file system. Here's another pair from /etc/fstab that mount a vfat fs: LABEL=MX200G /mnt/MX200G vfat noauto,user,dev,suid,exec,umask=000,uid=tom,gid=tom 0 0 # /dev/sdb1 /dev/usb-sdb1 /mnt/usb-sdb1 auto user,noauto,nodev,noatime,nosuid,noexec,rw,uid=tom,gid=tom 0 0 Both mount /mnt/MX200G and mount /mnt/usb-sdb1 work. -- Tom White

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nifty little tool -- histring
by T 12 Nov '06

12 Nov '06

[instigated by the fact that aamath was newly added to grml repository] Hi, Like to work in console more than X? Like text tools more than GUI ones? Then this small tools is definitely for you -- histring. http://www.kw.kernel.org/pub/mirrors/freebsd/ncvs/ports/misc/histring/ histring simply highlights strings using ANSI terminal escape codes. but the usage is endless. I almost use it everywhere in my script where I need a quick peek into large output. For example, zip -t *.zip 2>&1 | histring -fEi 'warning |bad CRC|error: ' | less will tell me if any of the zips files has any problem. Once you get used to it, you can't image the life without it. The following is another nifty alias that I use more often than anything else, to accept output from diff or rcsdiff to highlight diffs. histring -fE '^Comparing files .*|^diff .*' | histring -c yellow -fE '^\-.*' | histring -c green -fE '^\+.*' With that, who needs to wait for 0.5s for tkdiff? :-) Also, with that I wrote another alias to compare rcs file version by version. I guess no other diffing tool have such ability to show how things evolve. Hope we can have that in grml repository soon... -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/

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Not all packages on CD are in repository?
by T 12 Nov '06

12 Nov '06

Hi, while examine the outout from apt-show-versions, I feel that not all packages on CD are in repository (grml.org or debian). Is that so? Just list only a few of my findings... pcopy 1.5-4 newer than version in archive libdbus-1-2 0.62-4 installed: No available version in archive kwtools-sys-lvm 0.5.0-5 installed: No available version in archive securecgi 0.11.1 installed: No available version in archive kwtools-bin 0.5.0-5 installed: No available version in archive libdirectfb-0.9-24 0.9.24-4 installed: No available version in archive xcompmgr 1.1.1+cvs.20051218-1 installed: No available version in archive synctree 0.8-1 installed: No available version in archive libsvn0 1.3.2-5+b1 newer than version in archive thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/

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permanently saving alsa-config
by Peter Eberl 11 Nov '06

11 Nov '06

OK, having here a Fujitsu-Siemens B110 subnotebook running fine on grml. I noticed a strange thing: setting up the sound with alsaconf works fine. I would expect that the settings (for the soundcards) are saved permanently and started automatically. It isn't. The settings dissappear and after reboot they are lost. what are my wrong assumptions and how can I adjust the environment to meet them? regards peb -- I use grml (http://grml.org/)

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Allow user to handle their own print jobs
by T 11 Nov '06

11 Nov '06

Hi How to allow users to handle their own print queue? $ lprm 26 Password for tong on localhost? How can I configure my Debian so that users can freely handle their own print jobs (not others), and not bothered with password every time? thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/

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X and Console, grml 0.8 , latest update last week
by Erich Minderlein 09 Nov '06

09 Nov '06

Hallo Mika Amilopro V2030, 256 MByte RAM, 1,5 GHz Celeron The video framebuffer eats a minimum of 16 MByte from this RAM, I cannot adjust less in the BIOS. (Choice of 16/32/64 MByte) 1. Sometimes the notebook is very sluggish on the console, it takes several seconds to react. (runlevel 2, no swap space used) I believe the zsh does it with looking for too many aliases) 2. Starting X with init 5 and logging in as user terminates the session immediately and the login screen reappears and the grml browser starts. This has to do with file permissions, I had it on debian sarge too, forgot how to fix it. 3. Changing to console with CTRL-ALT-F# (console number) does not erase the x window, but gives only writes of the whitish parts of the console output in an unreadable way, obviously the pixel lines / columns memory order is not realigned to the display mode. best regards -- Erich Minderlein <erminderlein(a)locoware.de> MARC Mannheim Rail Commerce GmbH

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