January 2007 - Grml - lists.mur.at

sarge and kernel 2.6.18-grml: console and keyboard
by Erich Minderlein 19 Jan '07

19 Jan '07

console and keyboard: man zsh*(something) creates some unexpected special characters in the output instead of the foreseen text manipulations like e.g. underscore or ?? (bold works.) Keys Home (Pos1), End, Insert (Einfg) and Delete (Entf) dont work, but give a tilde on the console. Umlaute Ã¤Ã¶Ã¼ Ã„Ã–Ãœ dont work. Tried not very hard to find Lat15-Terminus16 in the repos-pool, did not succeed. where is it ? What is the fitting console font ? and where is it in repos? (booting with lang=de) Thanks -- Erich Minderlein <erminderlein(a)locoware.de> MARC Mannheim Rail Commerce GmbH

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sarge and kernel 2.6.18-grml on amilopro : LAN , zsh
by Erich Minderlein 19 Jan '07

19 Jan '07

Hello _LAN a lot of the difficulty arose from not having known the new udev system. now with inserting a module list in /etc/modules, a consistent booting of network devices can be achieved. the udev solution is still in work. _zsh has been modified with the grml zshrc text hilighting is fine, (done also for vim) however there is a complaint when login : line 779 histring not found. also _console and keyboard_: man zsh* creates some unexpected special characters instead of the foreseen text manipulations like underscore?? Keys Home (Pos1), End, Insert (Einfg) and Delete (Entf) dont work, but give a tilde on the console. Tried not very hard to find Lat15-Terminus16 in the repos-pool, did not succeed. where is it ? What is the fitting console font ? and where is it in repos? Thanks for the patience in this forum. best regards -- Erich Minderlein <erminderlein(a)locoware.de> MARC Mannheim Rail Commerce GmbH

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Limit tmpfs RAM across mount points
by Mark 18 Jan '07

18 Jan '07

What is the preferred grml way to limit total tmpfs RAM usage across all mount points. By default tmpfs takes 50% of RAM before swapout. We want a lower threshold of 20% RAM. With fstab syntax it's possible to limit one mount at a time, but is that the best one can do? It would be easier to limit the whole tmpfs subsystem and leave fstab entries "unlimited." Where is the 50% limit set, for example. M

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sarge and kernel 2.6.18-grml on amilopro : LAN , zsh
by Erich Minderlein 17 Jan '07

17 Jan '07

Hallo > > zsh > > apart from not being able to work efficiently on this subject: > uhm, sorry, what does this mean? not zsh but Think of : do something under sarge locally, e.g. currently I find out what the grml-kernel does or does not do with the sarge system, find out that you need a file from internet or lan , reboot with grml livecd, mount your hd, chroot, do your aptitude thing, reboot from harddisk, continue with do something, .. 10 minutes later the same ... as I cant get ethernet-lan with the grml-kernel and sarge system to work > zsh-FAQ 3.21 <http://zsh.sourceforge.net/FAQ/zshfaq03.html#l38>: (I will put in its config) thanks, Erich

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sarge and kernel 2.6.18-grml on amilopro : LAN , zsh
by Erich Minderlein 16 Jan '07

16 Jan '07

Hallo I have taken up again on this subject. LAN My first problem is that I cannot have ethernet connection on the LAN. Anything I install or transfer over net I must do or install in a grml-LiveCD CHRoot environment. there the networking worked. /etc/iftab, ifrename is installed, the wlan driver is very active, but I have no wlan, and the eth0 does not load . Wha cann I take from grml to get sarge working ? zsh apart from not being able to work efficiently on this subject : I changed the default shell for my accounts to zsh, and I want the historylogging enabled, and syntax-hilighting (also for vim), and the intelligent tab completion of grml all best systemwide. Other problems then will come up. Thanks in advance -- Erich Minderlein <erminderlein(a)locoware.de> MARC Mannheim Rail Commerce GmbH

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Debian Etch and grml
by Mark 16 Jan '07

16 Jan '07

Since grml is based on Debian "unstable" I guess Etch will not affect it. Is this true? Or, will many packages will move from "experimental" to "unstable"? My translation of Debian's strata are stable --> ancient and full of bugs, but patched testing --> less ancient, less bugs unstable --> current and basically stable* (grml) experimental --> might be buggy, package version conflicts abound * Oxymorons abound: "Software packages uploaded to unstable are normally stable versions" :-) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian M

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Re: Re: Debian Etch and grml
by Erich Minderlein 15 Jan '07

15 Jan '07

Hi I would like to point to the Discussion thread which we had in November 2006. I have forcibly new hardware, do development work but for embedded and my internal applications and not for etch. I prefer stable, because I am not in a position (capability and time) to pinpoint to problems and do not want my business performance be interrupted in the public by "but it did work until the upgrade". Think of making a presentation ..... Think of people YOU have to pay. It was pretty tough to switch from SusE 7.3 to debian sarge, which installed and ran relatively flawless on my older hw. (desktop + server, xterminals, project begun in Nov 2004, end in April 2006) Why not OpenSuSE : because I just run away from SuSE , with its constant changes and frequent updates. And now it is embraced by the Dollar freak anaconda and will be choked to death and swallowed. My experience with all multimillion $ US vampyrs: dont get even close! The vacuum cleaners of information and they dont leak anythink out. Why not ubuntu : I want a root password for security. Only single users may do so, If you run the risk of having someone else sitting on your keyboards : dont do it. GrÃ¼ss Gott -- Erich Minderlein <erminderlein(a)locoware.de> MARC Mannheim Rail Commerce GmbH

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New BIOS
by Mark 09 Jan '07

09 Jan '07

Does anyone boot grml on PCs with non-traditional BIOS? EFI (Intel Macs?), Sun Open Firmware, LinuxBIOS, etc. LinuxBIOS http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/11/30/199208 Sun released Open Firmware under BSD license. The One Laptop per Child project uses it (with LinuxBIOS too) http://www.mail-archive.com/devel@laptop.org/msg01849.html Linus thinks little of EFI. http://kerneltrap.org/node/6884 If anyone boots grml on any of this stuff, please relate how it works for you, and grml dev comments are welcome regardless. Thanks

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Recommended source.list and apt (pinning) setting for HD install?
by "Robert Zöhrer | pronet.at" 07 Jan '07

07 Jan '07

Before 'grml2hd-utils' could fetch packets (e.g. for multimedia stuff) I had to modify my default? source.list by activating ---------- # MPEG, divx...: deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org sid main deb-src http://www.debian-multimedia.org sid main --------- in this case. Because I'm still using default (at installation time) settings for source.list and apt-pinning (preferences) Question: Is there a recommended way of setting up (and maintain) packet assortment on a grml-HD-installation? I'm searching for a solution to permanently void packet chaos (maybe) caused by incompatible packet / repository dependencies when using (complex) pinning as it is at grml. -- regards Robert

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Backup job default enabled
by "Robert Zöhrer | pronet.at" 05 Jan '07

05 Jan '07

Hi, yesterday I noticed a sytem freeze of my grml HD installation on my Thinkpad. After a little time of puzzling I detected a full (100%) root partition :/ I thougt: Who the f*** has filled up the (before) remaining 2 GB of space? -> It was a default enabled? backup job (backup-manager?) who backed up /home /etc and some other stuff in /backup :( In principle (automatic) backups is a good cause and this default enabled backup job is well meaning but as we see in this example it could be problematic. Backing up on same physical disk doesn't make lots of sense anyway. Conclusio: I won't enable such probably space/resource consuming automatic tasks per default. p.s.: I certainly have a (central) backup solution via server ;) -- Regards Robert

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