September 2006 - Grml - lists.mur.at

Cream for VIM
by Mark 23 Sep '06

23 Sep '06

http://www.linuxwiki.org/Cream X11 only but would be nice addition for grml. Just some scripts, little space. It could get more people acquainted with VIM, too. M

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a good file manager
by T 23 Sep '06

23 Sep '06

[Trying my luck here. This is not the 1st or 2nd time that my email is blocked by some smart anti-spam system.] Subject: Recommend a file manager Newsgroups: gmane.linux.debian.user Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 16:55:27 +0200 Hi Please recommend a file manager. I need a good one to make my wife happy. We used to settle with the the file manager that comes default with Gnome, but now that one can't rename files any more (it actually can initially, but stop responding to keyboard very soon). please help thanks

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A view requests to make remastering easier
by Wolfgang Scheicher 22 Sep '06

22 Sep '06

I've experimented quite a bit with remastering grml. Basically i wanted to do change the package list to about that what i have on my desktop, which basically is mostly kde and kde apps, stuff like quanta, kile, etc... I'm quite there now, it works almost the way i want it. To have it working perfectly i would only need a view changes/additions to the grml scripts: *) option to change the default windowmanager - not hardcoding wm-ng in /etc/grml/autoconfig.functions *) options to start x on boot, so you can either - don't do anything - just create xorg.conf, but don't start xorg - create xorg.config and start xorg well, that's basically it. :) Worf

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grml-x generated xorg.conf issues
by Wolfgang Scheicher 22 Sep '06

22 Sep '06

The test setup: - GForce2MX - Samsung Syncmaster 940B (a 19" tft) - Logitech MX500 mouse on USB. I consider my setup not that exotic, but there are some problems with the xorg.conf that grml-x generates: *) The frequency for tft's should be 60Hz. I have to run grml-x with the option -hsync 60-60, don't know if it's possible to have this detected automatically. *) I get 2 Entries for mouse in the xorg.conf One "USB Mouse" and one "PS/2 Mouse". This would not be that bad actually, but both use device /dev/input/mice, resulting in a unusable x (double mouse speed and every klick being a double klick) I think this needs some tweaking :) Worf

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Forensic use of grml
by Ralf Moll 20 Sep '06

20 Sep '06

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'm a german police officer and sick of all the boot-cds around. I want to build a boot-cd / pxe-image for me and other people around based on grml because I like shell and debian / ubuntu. Currently I'm using a customized HELIX CD * http://e-fense.com/helix/ which is quite ok but "difficult" to customize. My plans are building ONE grml with the forensic tools I need or (which would be better) include all tools in the official grml-cd. I need a CD for booting outside our lab and a pxe-version inside our lab. The pxe-part rocks already. So here are the things I need to include: * libewf - Free tool to create and write back EnCase-Images * https://www.uitwisselplatform.nl/projects/libewf/ * A.I.R. Cloning HDs for mausschubser ;) * http://air-imager.sourceforge.net/ Additionally it would be cool to add a special hot-plug scipts for hds: if there is a scpecial id-file / volume-name automatically mount the hd as /media/destination-hd for faster hd-cloning. So, how can I do this and is there someone around who want's to help me? First of all one question: how can i add a additional dir to the cd for running e.g. libewf if I boot the "normal" grml v0.8 via PXE / NFS? Or can I place the unzipped ISO-Content in a NFS-Share and do there all the modifications I need? Further I will create a forensic-page in the grml-wiki and do the doku. greetings from Heilbronn, Germany, ralf -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFDo0kbMz/fBOR9IURAu1YAKCRAexh51NVw0VUIvN+rMAMM7D72ACffIsr yqjgHjiIR9qaUp6Tf2HFBnM= =Sqoy -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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FYI: Printing on remote CUPS server via lpr (package cupsys-bsd)
by "Robert Zöhrer | pronet.at" 19 Sep '06

19 Sep '06

Hi, while seeting up grml (HD-install) as my new working environmnet, I wanted to print on my CUPS printer server via cups-client from my grml running notebook: Printing via "old" (BSD style) commands lpr $somefile always returns something like: "jobs queued, but cannot start daemon." and no page was printing :( Because "lpstat -o -p -d" shows all available printer queues, I was perplexed After playing around a bit I noticed that # aptitude show lpr Unable to find an archive "grml" for the package "lpr" Package: lpr State: installed ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ is the problem. When printing via CUPS you need the wrapper package "cupsys-bsd" instead of "lpr" to be installed - otherwise all print jobs are handled by old BSD style lpr queue :/ This is _not_ really a grml bug, but maybe coexistent installing both of these packages should be thought over. Maybe this report helps other folks with same troubles -- Regards, Dipl.-Ing. Robert ZÖHRER Mail: robert.zoehrer(a)pronet.at GPG Key ID: 0x218139D9 Mobil: +43 699 177 66 380 ______________________________________________ PRONET IT & Security Services Krenngasse 27 | A-8010 Graz | Austria | Europe Tel: +43 316 817218-0 | Fax: +43 316 817218-99 http://www.pronet.at PROfessionell & PROduktiv

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ZFS for Linux ("real soon now")
by Mark 19 Sep '06

19 Sep '06

This file system is more solidly engineered than any other, it seems. Not yet for Linux, but someday? http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20051117-5595.html http://linux.inet.hr/zfs_filesystem_for_linux.html http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/ The ext2/3 stuff is really getting old. It's too bad Linux has not incorporated or "clean-roomed" the supremely good fs out there. M

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wishlist: better site navigation
by T 17 Sep '06

17 Sep '06

Hi I found that grml site is not that easy to quickly location information. Last time, when promoting grml-small in debian-users, it took me quite a while to find the link url to grml-small (the info, not its problems). Now I'm trying to find all packages available in grml 0.8. I remember seeing such page on grml before, but can't find it any more. Mika, please put it at least in grml 0.8 Release Notes, and if you have time, maybe it is good to think of a strategy to enable better navigation on grml site. thanks

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Grml mysql services
by T 17 Sep '06

17 Sep '06

Hi I notice that the mysql services in grml is different that I used to use. I used to only have the "mysql" service, but grml default is that "mysql" service is disabled while other two mysql-ndb-mgm & mysql-ndb are enabled: $ grep mysql /etc/runlevel.conf 19 - 2,3,4,5 /etc/init.d/mysql-ndb-mgm 20 0,1,6 - /etc/init.d/mysql 20 0,1,6 2,3,4,5 /etc/init.d/mysql-ndb 21 0,1,6 - /etc/init.d/mysql-ndb-mgm What are those two other two "mysql" service? Can they substitute the "mysql" service? If I enable the "mysql" service myself, should I disable the other two? The reason I'm asking is that I get the following error when trying to install a package that depends on mysql: ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2) thanks

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php in grml
by T 17 Sep '06

17 Sep '06

Hi Which version of php is used in grml? I can't verify with official grml packages, but mine seems to have been messed up: ii php-pear PEAR - PHP Extension and Application Repository ii php4-common Common files for packages built from the php4 source ii php5-cgi server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language (CGI binary) ii php5-cli command-line interpreter for the php5 scripting language ii php5-common Common files for packages built from the php5 source ii php5-mysql MySQL module for php5 Do php4 & php5 have to be all installed in grml? It has confused one of my newly installed package. thanks

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