January 2012 - Grml - lists.mur.at

OT: grml in remote VirtualBox
by T o n g 28 Jan '12

28 Jan '12

Hi, Anyone has rdesktop to remote VirtualBox grml before? I want to run grml in remote headless VirtualBox, but also want to have a local X env for other people who does not have local X, using rdesktop connecting to grml. So far I haven't been able to: $ rdesktop 192.168.2.103 & ERROR: 192.168.2.103: unable to connect Has anyone done that before, or knows how? Thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/

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gpm in grml 2011.12
by T o n g 27 Jan '12

27 Jan '12

Hi, Has anyone noticed that gpm in grml 2011.12 is using right instead of middle click to paste? Thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/

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grml live-usb and truecrypt?
by Stefan /*St0fF*/ Hübner 26 Jan '12

26 Jan '12

Dear list, I've been using grml-live-usb sticks for disaster cases since a few years. No I have "my own" disaster case - the system SSD starts to break, and the datastore-hdd is true-encrypted. I most probably won't get a network connection during the recovery process. How can I get truecrypt onto my usb-key "in advance"? Thanks for any hints in advance, Stefan

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Re: [Grml] Missing smbmount
by Dirk Becker 23 Jan '12

23 Jan '12

On 20.01.2012 17:54, Werner Flamme wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Dirk Becker [20.01.2012 17:04]: >> Hi all! >> >> I was using GRML very often for mounting SMB shares via 'mount -t >> smbfs'. Unfortunately smbfs seems to be removed since GRML >> 2011.12. Is there a workaround or any other way to mount Samba >> shares? >> >> -Dirk > > Hi Dirk, > > I'm no sure if the package is installed by default, but "mount -t > cifs" should work. I don't remember the package's name - something > with "cifs" in its name, maybe cifs-utils as in Ubuntu. > > HTH > Werner Hi Werner, there is neither a 'mount -t cifs' nor a 'mount -t smbfs'. Seems to be completely removed, I also can't find the packages in http://grml.org/files/grml32_2011.12/dpkg.list Does anybody know why they were removed? I found them very useful. -Dirk > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAk8ZnCsACgkQk33Krq8b42NDtACeMWoF78DV3sWGGw1qc7GR9mVC > NCYAnj2RFKGBmZF5guiM4nwhDb63XTz9 > =HY7i > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > Grml mailing list - Grml(a)ml.grml.org > http://ml.grml.org/mailman/listinfo/grml > join #grml on irc.freenode.org > grml-devel-blog: http://blog.grml.org/

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Missing smbmount
by Dirk Becker 20 Jan '12

20 Jan '12

Hi all! I was using GRML very often for mounting SMB shares via 'mount -t smbfs'. Unfortunately smbfs seems to be removed since GRML 2011.12. Is there a workaround or any other way to mount Samba shares? -Dirk

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Trying to get modules to load & services to start at boot
by John Magolske 17 Jan '12

17 Jan '12

Hi, I have grml installed on my ThinkPad (grml2hd 05/16/2011), and am having trouble getting modules to load & services to start at boot. I did: # echo tp_smapi >> /etc/modules But after booting, tp_smapi is not present and I end up having to manually load it. There's a post from 2005 [1] that says the solution is to activate /etc/init.d/module-init-tools in /etc/runlevel.conf. Is this still required? If so, as I don't see module-init-tools in that file, I'm wondering where in the lineup should it should be and at which runlevels it should start. Also, I added these lines to /etc/sysfs.conf : devices/platform/smapi/BAT0/start_charge_thresh=82 devices/platform/smapi/BAT0/stop_charge_thresh=92 vm.swappiness=5 But those values are not reflected after reboot: # cat /sys/devices/platform/smapi/BAT0/*_charge_thresh 89 96 # cat /proc/sys/vm/swappiness 60 So they have to be set manually: # echo 82 > /sys/devices/platform/smapi/BAT0/start_charge_thresh # echo 92 > /sys/devices/platform/smapi/BAT0/stop_charge_thresh # sysctl vm.swappiness=5 To start postfix I added this line to /etc/init.d/bootlocal.first : /etc/init.d/postfix restart But postfix doesn't start up at boot. Thanks for any suggestions on how to set these things up properly. [1] http://ml.grml.org/pipermail/grml/2005-November/008349.html Regards, John -- John Magolske http://B79.net/contact

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Re: [Grml] Statement regarding the Grml "reset" with 2011.12 release
by Lupe Christoph 05 Jan '12

05 Jan '12

Hi! I just tried to put these ISOs on the same USB stick: grml64_2011.12.iso grml32_2011.12.iso grml64_2011.05.iso grml_2011.05.iso (I wanted to have the older versions around because my paranoia tells me I will need one of the programs that were deleted, by I want to use the newer versions to find out if I really do.) It turns out that grml2usb used the flavour to generate the syslinux menu entries: Debug: 2012-01-05 12:31:35,505 Note: you can boot flavour grml using 'grml' on the commandline. Debug: 2012-01-05 12:31:35,505 Note: you can boot flavour grml32 using 'grml32' on the commandline. Debug: 2012-01-05 12:31:35,505 Note: you can boot flavour grml64 using 'grml64' on the commandline. So I'm able to boot the older versions because I specified the later on the command line, and grml32_2011.12.iso because the flavour changed to grml32. And grml64 was selected as the default flavour because it came first. Only the version was replaced. Looks like I would have to fiddle with the contents of one of the grml64 ISOs to accomplish my goal. Any suggestions? Yeah, I know, buy another USB stick, they're cheap ;-) Thanks, Luep Christoph -- | It is a well-known fact in any organisation that, if you want a job | | done, you should give it to someone who is already very busy. | | Terry Pratchett, "Unseen Academicals" |

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