February 2011 - Grml - lists.mur.at

A GRML User here
by Rooster Cogburn 25 Feb '11

25 Feb '11

I have a little respin on based on GRML-small/crunchbang statler that I use. Just thought I'd' add it to the survey even though yall are done. http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic/11853/kirin-grml-squeezestatler/ Absolutely love this project.

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grml for hardware inventorying
by Ernesto Domato 24 Feb '11

24 Feb '11

Hi. Today I received a mail from a friend asking me if I know any tool to make hardware inventorying and I remember using one Linux bootable from floppy that did that but at tis time is too old and obsolete (and I don't remember its name either :-) ). So, I was thinking if grml comes with some kind of this software that could save the information on a USB or through network. Doing a fast search on Debian repository there's something called "ocsinventory" but seems not to be part of grml (maybe I should remaster a CD with it). And the "hardware detection tool" that you can use at boot time is not usable for this since I didn't find a way to save the information to a device not network so is hard to inventory about 50 computers with it. Thanks for all. Ernesto.

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Trying to boot grml ISO image with grml-rescueboot fails
by Frédéric Boiteux 22 Feb '11

22 Feb '11

Hello, I don't know GRML yet, but I've heard about it in Mikas' blog (http://michael-prokop.at/blog/2011/01/07/booting-iso-images-from-within-gru…) and liked to try it, so I installed grml-rescueboot (0.2.0 version) debian package from http://deb.grml.org/ and installed it on my Debian Squeeze system, along with the grml64-medium_2010.12.iso image in /boot/grml directory. I then tried to boot it through the Grub2's menu entry, but it didn't work (using menu, we don't see any error message). I then try to launch every command of the menu entry in Grub2's command line, and it fails in the line : loopback loop "/boot/grml/grml-medium_2010.12.iso" telling it doesn't find this file. I think the 'root' setting is missing, and as I have before Grml a grub menu entry to boot a Windows partition, the last root setting isn't the right one. I've manually set 'root' and then I finally got a new menu, from GRML, and then I tried the 'forensic mode', as I didn't want GRML using my swap partition (I had an hibernated system there), but the debian-live system didn't work. I don't have any clue here as the 'debug' variable wasn't set (and so /live.log was empty), but I'll retry this when I have some spare time). Hope it can help, Fred.

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Grub2 install behavior changed? Grml LiveCD 2010.12
by hansbkk＠gmail.com 16 Feb '11

16 Feb '11

I've previously been using Ubuntu v10.10 as my maintenance OS for managing Grub2, but since discovering that Grml's LiveCD environment includes a recent Grub2 release I thought I'd give that a go. Grml is using Grub2 version 1.99~201012221-1" (same as "beta0" right?) While Ubuntu 10.10 reports "1.98+20100804-5ubuntu3". I have my "master grub partition" - which contains my bootable ISOs, persistence files for some of the LiveCDs, and a /boot/grub/ folder. This folder has the results of previous "grub-install" commands run from Ubuntu, as well as a manually maintained grub.cfg. There is no OS in this partition (other than the LiveCD ISOs). Even though under most distros the drive containing this partition comes up as /dev/sde, Grub2 sees it as (hd0), so I've got it set up as my boot device. I also have a second drive (/dev/sdf or (hd1) via grub) set up identically, also bootable and use rsync to back up the partitions' contents after any significant changes (I originally tried to do this as a RAID1 mirror, but ran into problems with some LiveCDs mounting the persistence files from the member partition, breaking the array). Booting into Grml, I map the first drive's grub partition to /mnt/g201, so the grub folder is now at /mnt/g201/boot/grub and run: grub-install --boot-directory=/mnt/g201/ /dev/sde At next boot, the loader brings me to a blank grub prompt (not the rescue grub, a full working grub2 environment with root=(hd0,msdos1) as it should be To figure out what the boot loader is doing, I run boot-info-script (excellent tool BTW, should definitely be added to Grml!) and it tells me "Grub 2 is installed in the MBR of /dev/sde and looks for we." As opposed to my second drive, for which says (much more informatively)" "Grub 2 is installed in the MBR of /dev/sdf and looks on the same drive in partition #1 for (,msdos1)/boot/grub." The latter being normal for a correctly working boot loader, at least as far as Ubuntu is concerned. I then have a look at my first drive's grub partition, and see that my grub-install command from Grml resulted in a whole new grub folder directly under the root /mnt/g201/grub, rather than updating the existing /mnt/g201/boot/grub So I figure this is why the boot loader isn't loading the grub.cfg from my usual /boot/grub - presumably it's looking for a grub.cfg in /grub and of course there isn't one there. So this time I run the command as follows: grub-install --boot-directory=/mnt/g201/boot /dev/sde Note the path spec'd to the /boot parent of where grub should go, rather than the root of the device as is usual under Ubuntu. This time the result file for the boot-info-script tells me "Grub 2 is installed in the MBR of /dev/sde and looks for le." (as opposed for "we" before - WTF?) But the drive now boots up properly into my boot.cfg. So I was able to get it working. Is this an intended behavior change for grub-install, that --boot-directory is now supposed to specify the immediate parent of where I want the /grub folder to go? I hope not, because having a canonical /boot/grub location seems to be helpful in troubleshooting - letting the user put it anywhere s/he likes seems an unnecessary complication. . . It also seems that many of the entries in my grub.cfg no longer are working, so rather than troubleshooting all the other changes between these two Grub2 version, at this point I'm going back to Ubuntu's and hopefully these problems will go away. If I do want to come back to this later, is there a good location for documentation on things the end user needs to be aware of regarding differences between 1.98 and 1.99? Thanks in advance. . .

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dupmerge - : Value too large for defined data type
by hansbkk＠gmail.com 09 Feb '11

09 Feb '11

First of all, heaps of gratitude for the excellent contribution, tremendously helpful tool. I really like the way you keep my mdadm raids in order, compared to some of the mangling I see under other "rescue disks" (actually rw-writing the preferred minor?) What brought me to Grml was the fact that you include the dupmerge tool out of the box, but in running it over a large set of video files (around 5 TB at the moment, ext3 filesystem) I'm getting tons of the above error messages on large files (some are up to 16GB). Having such a tool fail on the largest files kind of defeats the purpose doesn't it 8-) I see you're running v1.70, while Sourceforge lists v1.73 as current (as of 2008!), and I see references on the interwebs to v1.74, so consider this if nothing else a request to update. If it's not difficult it's also be great to be able to check out another one or two similar deduplication tools unless you've already checked them all out and consider dupmerge2 the best? Here's a good overview: http://www.asheesh.org/note/software/duplicate-files.html My vote would be for freedup and rdfind. Thanks for your consideration

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Re: [Grml] consolefont
by didi.segbert＠arcor.de 08 Feb '11

08 Feb '11

## Originalempfaenger: eixman(a)gmx.de Hello, thanks for your tip. luit -encoding ISO8859-1 openxp will work super. Thanks and regards. Dietmar > eixman(a)gmx.de schrieb am 08.02.11: > On Sun, Feb 06, 2011 at 04:06:00PM +0100, Dietmar Segbert wrote: >> I want to use a older linux-version of openxp (crosspoint Mail and >> news). > Isn't there a recent version?.. >> The editior of openxp can not use utf8. If i do term2iso, the >> program show the menus correct (ae,oe, ue ss). But in the editor >> the german ue, ae oe or ss wil be not displayed correct. >> >> How can iset for the use of openxp the terminal to ibm437 >> (keyboard, screen)? > Maybe the luit program can be of help ... > flori > _______________________________________________ > Grml mailing list - Grml(a)mur.at > http://lists.mur.at/mailman/listinfo/grml > join #grml on irc.freenode.org > grml-devel-blog: http://grml.supersized.org/

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How to switch from dynamic IP to static IP in grml
by T o n g 08 Feb '11

08 Feb '11

Hi, I use dynamic IP previously, now I need to use static IP for my ether card, which had been automatically configured by grml: $ cat /etc/networks default 0.0.0.0 loopback 127.0.0.0 link-local 169.254.0.0 $ ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:11:2f:be:4b:ba inet addr:192.168.0.100 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:1313320 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:1179010 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:697520612 (665.2 MiB) TX bytes:782279263 (746.0 MiB) Interrupt:17 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:803382 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:803382 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:233726809 (222.8 MiB) TX bytes:233726809 (222.8 MiB) How can I switch from dynamic IP to static IP now? $ grep -i network /etc/grml/autoconfig CONFIG_DEBNET='yes' # search for /etc/network/interfaces on partitions and set up network afterwards CONFIG_DISTCC='yes' # activate and setup distcc through bootparam distcc=$NETWORK,$INTERFACE Neither seems to me is the correct switch. Please help. Thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/

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Pump and dnsmasq
by T o n g 07 Feb '11

07 Feb '11

Hi, If I dedicate a box for dnsmasq as both dhcp and dns server, can I use pump as dhcp client on the very box to obtain the fixed IP address configured in dnsmasq? This is kind of chick-egg problem, so I want to make sure before proceeding. Thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/

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Libvirt and grml
by T o n g 07 Feb '11

07 Feb '11

Hi, Is libvirt supported by grml out of box? " Libvirt is a C toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes). The library aims at providing a long term stable C API for different virtualization mechanisms. It currently supports QEMU, KVM, XEN, OpenVZ, LXC, and VirtualBox. " Thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/

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Mail Problem
by Björn Faath 06 Feb '11

06 Feb '11

Hello I have problems with grml-mutt I have my mail stored data and can easily retrieve mail from the server using POP3. Unfortunately, the folded delivery of mail to any address not. My mail to a TOnline address is ok but not go to Gmail adress, unless I have a gmail mail as coming from "reply" to answer then it goes through?? What am I doing wrong? -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen Björn Faath !!! Bitte beachten Sie unsere neuen Telefonnummern !!! _ __ __ (_ |_ _| ||_ |__)|_/ | |_|| )| |/\||__| \ | \ Kaiserstraße 34 72793 Pfullingen Tel.: 07121 / 2081195 Mobil: 0176 / 10336765 email: info(a)fuhr-werk.de www.fuhr-werk.de

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