August 2009 - Grml - lists.mur.at

the linux cookbook
by Josh 28 Oct '09

28 Oct '09

Hi, wow I did not know I could read the linux cookbook online until I did a google search for it and found it online. But here's a problem I need to overcome, and if anyone has already overcome this being blind, can you share how you did it? Ok, so for me to practically use this cookbook, I will need to: *be able to somehow read the book and then go to my computer and follow the directions. so I would need two computers? one to read the book on, and another to have grml Linux on. or *have a braille copy of the Linux cookbook so I therefore only need one computer and can read the braille copy to refer back to. Josh email: jkenn337(a)gmail.com msn: kenn6498ku(a)hotmail.com

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GRML always writes a core file when shutting down/rebooting
by Hermann 05 Sep '09

05 Sep '09

Hi, when I shut down/reboot my system, I get a core file written in /. Since this is happening repeatedly, there is a pretty large amount of drive space wasted. Can anyone confirm/reproduce this behavior, and does anybody know what causes this? How can I stop this? Hermann --

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Having a way to set default X session manager
by Michael Whapples 05 Aug '09

05 Aug '09

Hello, Currently when GRML is installed to HD it creates the user home directory with a .xinitrc file with a window manager (looking closer at alternatives it seems this really should be called x session manager). This makes it impossible for a system wide default window manager to be set. I remember that slackware offered a feature where a default system window manager could be set and such a feature would be useful in GRML. Obviously should a user want to use something other than the default then they can do so by running grml-x or manually create the ~/.xinitrc file. Would it be possible to add such a feature? Michael Whapples

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Call for help: grmlzshrc.5
by Frank Terbeck 04 Aug '09

04 Aug '09

Hello grml users! You are probably aware of the fact that grml ships a pretty big zsh setup. It is quite likely, though, that nobody - including us developers - knows every function, keybinding or feature the setup implements. That's why a manpage was started for it in order to create a reference manual about the setup. A reference card for the zshrc exists already, but that is rather brief due to... well being a reference card. The basic skeleton for the manpage is ready. I described a few features and began a reference section. However. Writing a complete reference for our setup is a big and tedious task. I personally don't use the setup myself, which doesn't exactly help matters either... And there are still numerous functions, aliases, variables and options, that need to be documented. So, to cut a long story short: Help!1!! :-) No, seriously. If you are interested in helping writing that manual, please contact us at: grml-etc-core(a)grml.org ...so we can coordinate the work (and possibly avoid doubled work if a lot of people are willing to help). Every little bit would help, so don't be shy. :) In order to get a local version of the repository that keeps track of the manual do this: % git clone git://git.grml.org/grml-etc-core.git % cd grml-etc-core % git co -b zshrc5 origin/ft/zshrc5 % cd doc After that you'll see a file called grmlzshrc.t2t which is the markup source of the manpage. The markup language used is txt2tags and the needed package is just one 'aptitude install txt2tags' away. It's a pretty minimal language, that is quite easy to use - the existing content will give you a very good idea of how to achieve different things using txt2tags. To generate roff (the man-format in a .5 file) and html versions of the manual (to see what your changes look like) just run 'make' in the doc subdirectory. If you can spare a few minutes of your time to contribute, please send us a message to the aforementioned address and we'll see how to go on from there. Thanks for reading all the way down here. :) Regards, Frank - on behalf of the grml team. PS: A pretty recent generation of the html output can be seen here: <http://ft.bewatermyfriend.org/tmp/grmlzshrc.html> -- In protocol design, perfection has been reached not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. -- RFC 1925

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