September 2006 - Grml - lists.mur.at

Re: Locale settings for US
by Michael Prokop 14 Oct '06

14 Oct '06

(Cc:-ing grml-mailinglist) * Mark <27e3kk302(a)sneakemail.com> [20060929 11:02]: > > > Current /etc/default/locale values (the rest undefined): > > > # File generated by grml-setlang > > > LANGUAGE=us > > > LANG=en_US.iso885915 > > > LC_ALL=en_US.iso885915 > > > LC_MESSAGES=en_US.iso885915 > > > COUNTRY=US > > > CHARSET=iso8859-1 > > Ok, and what's inside /etc/sysconfig/keyboard? > This: > # File generated by grml-setkeyboard ... > KEYTABLE="us" > XKEYBOARD="us" > KDEKEYBOARD="us" > KDEKEYBOARDS="us" Ok. > > If X is running: does 'xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap' do what you expect to > > get? > No change. The environment files look ok. How does environment look like in X then? (Just run 'env'.) Does running 'startx 2>~/.xsession-errors' show anything relevant in ~/.xsession-errors? Which grml-version are you using? Output of 'dpkg --list grml-scripts grml-autoconfig grml-etc grml-etc-core' would be interesting as well. > Maybe something like "GTKKEYBOARD" as it's not KDE but XFCE desktop. No. (I don't know of such an environment variable and never set one at grml.) regards, -mika- -- http://grml.org/ # Linux for texttool-users and sysadmins http://wiki.grml.org/ # share your knowledge http://grml.supersized.org/ # the grml development weblog #grml @ irc.freenode.org # meet us on irc

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df: `/dev/.static/dev': Permission denied
by T 07 Oct '06

07 Oct '06

Hi Whenever I run df, I get `/dev/.static/dev': Permission denied: $ df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on rootfs 4032092 2411436 1415832 64% / /dev/root 4032092 2411436 1415832 64% / df: `/dev/.static/dev': Permission denied tmpfs 10240 180 10060 2% /dev tmpfs 386576 0 386576 0% /dev/shm [...] what might be the problem? the cure? I'm using grml 0.7 hd installation. thanks tong PS. I remember seeing boot up message related with /dev/.static/dev, but I can't seem to find them: cd /var/log grep 'dev/\.static' dmesg messages sysl zgrep 'dev/\.static' dmesg.1.gz messages.1.gz syslog.1.gz both grep find nothing.

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grml netcardconfig
by Jan-Pieter Jacobs 05 Oct '06

05 Oct '06

Hi, I found something annoying (dunno if it is intended or not, but it doesn't work for m at least. I've got 2 NIC's and I use this box to forward internet to another one/whole network. I use eth0 as internet connection, eth1 wit� a static IP and dnsmasq as DNS/DHCP server. Now if I configure eth1 with the netcardconfig, networking doesn't work any longer. now I found in the home-router-howto at gentoo that the network and gateway option aren't used, so that solved the problem. Maybe this is intentional, or the script should make a difference between an interface which 'receives' internet or one that forwards it. BTW i've written a little script to enable routing with iptables, if you want it, drop me a note. JP -- I use grml (http://grml.org/)

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Text based Email: what do I need?
by Branko Vukelic 30 Sep '06

30 Sep '06

Hi, all! I've recently started using grml for rescue purposes. First of all, I would like to thank the team for developing such a magnificent distro. Bravo! Now for the question. I used to be a Windows user, and a MS-DOS user before that. About an year ago I switched to Linux. I decided to give my Email routine a bit of a twist by using grml for Email and backing up the msgs to my USB stick. However, I am completely lost in the vast array of software involved and need a quick tour of what old-school text-based mail is about and what I need to know in order to make a quick (and dirty) setup. What I want to do is: 1. set up POP access (using SSL) to my Gmail.com account, 2. filter mailing list messages and etc. into different folders, 3. send mail using Gmail.com's SMTP server, 4. locating and backing up messages to USB stick. I've googled about quite extensively, but it's just too much info for an absolute CLI mail beginner. Thanks, B

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Locale settings for US
by Mark 29 Sep '06

29 Sep '06

Grml locale stuff is developing, but here's a question. We have a strange behavior on the numeric keypad. In grml tty it gives a period (US style). In X sessions it gives a comma (European style). What should we set to fix this? Current /etc/default/locale values (the rest undefined): # File generated by grml-setlang LANGUAGE=us LANG=en_US.iso885915 LC_ALL=en_US.iso885915 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.iso885915 COUNTRY=US CHARSET=iso8859-1

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USERGROUPS=no ?
by Wolfgang Scheicher 28 Sep '06

28 Sep '06

Since still nobody could give me a reason why every user should have his own group (or can you?) i prefer setting USERGROUPS=no in /etc/adduser.conf experimenting with remastering grml i found out that there are some places with a "chmod grml.grml <dir>" ( /etc/grml/autoconfig.functions, /etc/init.d/grml-home ) I think by changing this to "chmod grml: <dir>" we would support both ways. Well, and since i would like it that way, i'm requesting that little change :) Worf

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by William Windels 26 Sep '06

26 Sep '06

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Rerunning lilo
by Scott Ford 25 Sep '06

25 Sep '06

Hi everyone, I am new to the list and Linux. I installed GRML on my Toshiba a55. I am blind and I was able to resize my hard drive, and install the grml to the hard drive with no problem. This is what I had partitioned my hard drive to, hda1 26G, hda2 2g fat32, hda3 1G Linux swap, and hda4 Linux. Thank you guys for setting up such an awesome distribution. I have been looking for this for a long time. I have been reading and learning . I figured that I would reconfigure my hard rive so that I had an extended partition. This is what I changed it to hda1 26G ntfs, hda2 1G Linux swap, hda33G Linux, hda4 extended, hda5 fat16 5G, and hda6 4G Linux. I reran the grml2hd script, it went well, it said that lilo ran successfully. However it did not. So I mounted hda3 the Linux partition, and copied the /mnt/hda3/etc/lilo.conf to the /etc/lilo.conf. I then ran /sbin/lilo It failed saying that /dev/hda3 is not set to be active. I then discovered that the line /device/hda3 was in the place where /dev/had been in my original configuration. I attempted to change it to /dev/had. I tried to rerun lilo again, it failed attempting to map to unmapped device oxoee or something. I am sorry I did not write exactly what it said down. However I believe that you guys probably are familiar with what is happening. I do not have a clue though. I cannot seem to find any thing on what is happening on the net either. Thank you guys in advanced. Scott -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.12.8/455 - Release Date: 9/22/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.12.8/455 - Release Date: 9/22/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.12.8/455 - Release Date: 9/22/2006

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Filesystem not clean on boot up
by T 24 Sep '06

24 Sep '06

Hi What's the difference between using the command "reboot" and let the keyboard trigger the "init 6" to reboot? I notice I always get the "Filesystem not clean" message having switched over to grml when rebooting. I trigger the reboot via keyboard to issue init 6. Didn't notice so when using Debian Sarge though. Can I rely on keyboard/HW triggers for reboot or poweroff, or I'd better type the command? Or, the Grml is more a live system which has skips some steps that normal non-live systems will do when shutdown? I'm using the reiserfs systems. thanks

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Fwd: Rerunning lilo
by Steffen Liebergeld 23 Sep '06

23 Sep '06

I think this was meant for the mailing list... Anfang der weitergeleiteten E-Mail: > Von: "Scott Ford" <w8sef(a)sbcglobal.net> > Datum: 23. September 2006 04:46:29 MESZ > An: "'Steffen Liebergeld'" <stepardo(a)gmail.com> > Betreff: Rerunning lilo > > Hi everyone, > I am new to the list and Linux. I installed GRML on my Toshiba a55. > I am blind and I was able to resize my hard drive, and install the > grml to > the hard drive with no problem. This is what I had partitioned my > hard > drive to, hda1 26G, hda2 2g fat32, hda3 1G Linux swap, and hda4 Linux. > Thank you guys for setting up such an awesome distribution. I have > been > looking for this for a long time. I have been reading and > learning . I > figured that I would reconfigure my hard rive so that I had an > extended > partition. This is what I changed it to hda1 26G ntfs, hda2 1G > Linux swap, > hda33G Linux, hda4 extended, hda5 fat16 5G, and hda6 4G Linux. I > reran the > grml2hd script, it went well, it said that lilo ran successfully. > However > it did not. So I mounted hda3 the Linux partition, and copied the > /mnt/hda3/etc/lilo.conf to the /etc/lilo.conf. I then ran /sbin/ > lilo It > failed saying that /dev/hda3 is not set to be active. I then > discovered > that the line /device/hda3 was in the place where /dev/had been in my > original configuration. I attempted to change it to /dev/had. I > tried to > rerun lilo again, it failed attempting to map to unmapped device > oxoee or > something. I am sorry I did not write exactly what it said down. > However I > believe that you guys probably are familiar with what is > happening. I do > not have a clue though. I cannot seem to find any thing on what is > happening on the net either. Thank you guys in advanced. > Scott > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.12.8/455 - Release Date: > 9/22/2006 > > -- mfg, Steffen Liebergeld A charlatan makes obscure what is clear; a thinker makes clear what is obscure. -- Hugh Kingsmill

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