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JFYI: mail policy /spamfilters of mailinglist server
by Michael Prokop 20 Nov '06

20 Nov '06

Hoi, just to inform you about the mail policy of the grml mailinglist(s), thanksfully hosted at mur.at: Since 14th of November 2006 a new mail policy regarding the spamfilters is active, see http://mur.at/support/mail/policy-1?set_language=en for details. If you don't know what to do right now just forget my mail. ;) But if you *might* notice any problems with sending mails to the grml mailinglist please let me know. Just send me a personal mail (off the list) providing bounce details/logs so we (mainly Jogi of NOC @ mur.at) can investigate. JFYI && regards, -mika- -- http://grml.org/ # Linux for texttool-users and sysadmins http://wiki.grml.org/ # share your knowledge http://grml.supersized.org/ # the grml development weblog #grml @ irc.freenode.org # meet us on irc

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AMILOPRO V2030 sluggish : cpu frequency modulation slow ? speedstep-centrino vs. p4-clockmod
by Erich Minderlein 20 Nov '06

20 Nov '06

Hi Google is responding poorly with this problem. My AMILOPRO V2030 with 1.5 GHertz centrino gives the following output: /var/log/kern.log: Nov 20 16:33:49 amilopro kernel: p4-clockmod: Warning: Pentium M detected. The speedstep_centrino module offers voltage scaling in addition of frequency scaling. You should use that instead of p4-clockmod, if possible. Nov 20 16:33:49 amilopro kernel: p4-clockmod: P4/Xeon(TM) CPU On-Demand Clock Modulation available /proc/cpuinfo: processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 13 model name : Intel(R) Celeron(R) M processor 1.50GHz stepping : 8 cpu MHz : 187.500 cache size : 1024 KB fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 2 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss tm pbe up bogomips : 3019.16 I have put p4-clockmod in /etc/modprobe/blacklist , but output of kern.log remains the same after init 6 locate speedstep-centrino shows the driver is there. What else can I doo to use correct driver and crank cpu speed up after keypressed ? best regards -- Erich Minderlein <erminderlein(a)locoware.de> MARC Mannheim Rail Commerce GmbH

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Norton Guide Reader
by T 18 Nov '06

18 Nov '06

Hi I'm wondering if any of you still remember those Norton Guides. IHMO, the Norton Guide collection is the most comprehensive on-line document about anything for you PC, from Bios, to any programming language. Well written, far more easy to navigate. I found a Norton Guide Reader For GNU/Linux at http://www.davep.org/norton-guides/ mike, would you care to build a Debian package for it? 'cause the comprehensive Norton Guide collection is still floating around the Internet... (it is also perfectly ok if you don't :->) -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/

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FW: [rdiff-backup-users] Debian debs with patch fix for #355178
by devzero＠web.de 18 Nov '06

18 Nov '06

Hello ! for the moment i have no suitable debian system for testing around, but this one (see below) is an important bugfixed version of librsync and also rdiff-backup, countaining a patch which fixes a >4gb file problem. maybe some candidate for 0.9 !? (needs testing, though) for details, also see https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1439412&group_id=… librsync folks still didn`t do a new librsync release because the maintainers seem to have more important to do with their other projects ;) regards roland > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Faheem Mitha <faheem(a)email.unc.edu> > Gesendet: 10.11.06 20:10:57 > An: rdiff-backup-users(a)nongnu.org > Betreff: [rdiff-backup-users] Debian debs with patch fix for #355178 > > Hi everyone, > > I just ran into Debian bug #355178, reported by Dean Gaudet. See > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=355178, which has > links to a corresponding bug report on sourceforge. I imagine some/all > people here are already aware of this bug, though. > > This was with a 4.2 Gig Zope Data.fs database file. I ignored it for a > bit hoping it would go away. It didn't, but I was relieved to learn > that this was a known bug with a patch. > > I spent quite a lot of time yesterday, patching librsync and > rebuilding rdiff-backup against it. > > You can get the librsync and rdiff-backup debs (for sarge) from > > deb http://dulci.org/~faheem/debian/ sarge main contrib non-free > deb-src http://dulci.org/~faheem/debian/ sarge main contrib non-free > > As expected, it made the problem go away. > > NB. If anyone is considering setting up an apt repository, consider > using reprepro (http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/286). It > makes the process quite easy. > > Does anyone know any friendly Debian developers would could be > persuaded to do NMUs of librsync and rdiff-backup? It would be a good > thing if this fix could go in for etch. > > I also have a question for Dean Gaudet. Since you are the only one > apparently committing now to rdiff-backup (at least in the last few > months), do you know if there are any plans to put out a new release > in the near future with fixes? > > Faheem. > > > _______________________________________________ > rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users(a)nongnu.org > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users > Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki _____________________________________________________________________ Der WEB.DE SmartSurfer hilft bis zu 70% Ihrer Onlinekosten zu sparen! http://smartsurfer.web.de/?mc=100071&distributionid=000000000066

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Code2blog: Source-highlight frontend
by T 16 Nov '06

16 Nov '06

Hi Do you blog a lot? Do you sometimes include code in you blog? Do you want that your code show up colorfully in you blog? then use Code2blog, the source-highlight frontend! It can be used to highlight on-the-fly a program so that the formatted form (HTML) can be easily copied and then pasted in your blog. This frontend is written using Python (version 4) and pyGTK. http://code.google.com/p/code2blog/ -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/

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xsel: Doesn't work correctly in a UTF-8 environment
by T 16 Nov '06

16 Nov '06

Hi I notice an outstanding bugs for xsel -- Doesn't work correctly in a UTF-8 environment. However, there is a patch for it: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=231413 ,----- | This adds UTF8 support without breaking things. New command-line option | (-u|--utf8) switches between XA_STRING and UTF8_STRING selection | targets. When UTF8_STRING is not supported by X-server, xsel falls back to | XA_STRING. | | Please note, this patch also fixes #203925 (manpage bug). `----- mika, would you be so kind to build a new version with the patch, since it is already 2 years and 283 days old? thanks PS. for mlist, If you don't use/know xsel, I highly recommend it. -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/

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Mixer
by Christoph Hartung 14 Nov '06

14 Nov '06

Morgen, sitz hier an einem Asus A6T, Grml Live CD 0.8 Funkenzutzler. Bitte das Mikro vom aumix bei zukünftigen Versionen auf Null setzen, auf der A6T Reihe gibt es böse Feedbacks zwischen Mikro und Lautsprecher, hat bei mir ein ganzes Einfamilienhaus aufgeweckt, bin nichtmal dazu gekommen, aumix aufzurufen bevor wer durch die Tür gehüpft kam ;) MFG Christoph

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Writing to Hard Drives from LiveCD
by Juergen Fiedler 14 Nov '06

14 Nov '06

I have observed something odd: When I write data to a mounted hard drive partition while running from the livecd, the amount of written data is subtracted from the free RAM, i.e., if I do a dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/hda1/tmp/testfile bs=1M count=512 with /dev/hda1 mounted on /mnt/hda1, I am losing 512M of my RAM; deleting the file frees up that RAM. After rebooting, the file is still there, but doesn't take up any RAM anymore. I think I may be missing something vitally important about how the unionfs is set up. Can anybody please tell me how I can write files to an HD without them taking up RAM, too? Any help would be much appreciated! Cheers, --j

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/etc/fstab and mounting USB drives
by Tom White 14 Nov '06

14 Nov '06

The latest rebuildfstab in my grml installed on hd has these entries: LABEL=MX320G /mnt/MX320G ntfs noauto,user,dev,suid,exec,ro,umask=000,uid=tom,gid=tom 0 0 # /dev/sda1 /dev/usb-sda1 /mnt/usb-sda1 auto user,noauto,nodev,noatime,nosuid,noexec,rw,uid=tom,gid=tom 0 0 Those are the same drive. mount /mnt/MX320G doesn't work; it complains about no LABEL=MX320G device. mount /mnt/usb-sda1 does work, but I don't like the "rw" on my ntfs file system. Here's another pair from /etc/fstab that mount a vfat fs: LABEL=MX200G /mnt/MX200G vfat noauto,user,dev,suid,exec,umask=000,uid=tom,gid=tom 0 0 # /dev/sdb1 /dev/usb-sdb1 /mnt/usb-sdb1 auto user,noauto,nodev,noatime,nosuid,noexec,rw,uid=tom,gid=tom 0 0 Both mount /mnt/MX200G and mount /mnt/usb-sdb1 work. -- Tom White

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nifty little tool -- histring
by T 12 Nov '06

12 Nov '06

[instigated by the fact that aamath was newly added to grml repository] Hi, Like to work in console more than X? Like text tools more than GUI ones? Then this small tools is definitely for you -- histring. http://www.kw.kernel.org/pub/mirrors/freebsd/ncvs/ports/misc/histring/ histring simply highlights strings using ANSI terminal escape codes. but the usage is endless. I almost use it everywhere in my script where I need a quick peek into large output. For example, zip -t *.zip 2>&1 | histring -fEi 'warning |bad CRC|error: ' | less will tell me if any of the zips files has any problem. Once you get used to it, you can't image the life without it. The following is another nifty alias that I use more often than anything else, to accept output from diff or rcsdiff to highlight diffs. histring -fE '^Comparing files .*|^diff .*' | histring -c yellow -fE '^\-.*' | histring -c green -fE '^\+.*' With that, who needs to wait for 0.5s for tkdiff? :-) Also, with that I wrote another alias to compare rcs file version by version. I guess no other diffing tool have such ability to show how things evolve. Hope we can have that in grml repository soon... -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/

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Not all packages on CD are in repository?
by T 12 Nov '06

12 Nov '06

Hi, while examine the outout from apt-show-versions, I feel that not all packages on CD are in repository (grml.org or debian). Is that so? Just list only a few of my findings... pcopy 1.5-4 newer than version in archive libdbus-1-2 0.62-4 installed: No available version in archive kwtools-sys-lvm 0.5.0-5 installed: No available version in archive securecgi 0.11.1 installed: No available version in archive kwtools-bin 0.5.0-5 installed: No available version in archive libdirectfb-0.9-24 0.9.24-4 installed: No available version in archive xcompmgr 1.1.1+cvs.20051218-1 installed: No available version in archive synctree 0.8-1 installed: No available version in archive libsvn0 1.3.2-5+b1 newer than version in archive thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/

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permanently saving alsa-config
by Peter Eberl 11 Nov '06

11 Nov '06

OK, having here a Fujitsu-Siemens B110 subnotebook running fine on grml. I noticed a strange thing: setting up the sound with alsaconf works fine. I would expect that the settings (for the soundcards) are saved permanently and started automatically. It isn't. The settings dissappear and after reboot they are lost. what are my wrong assumptions and how can I adjust the environment to meet them? regards peb -- I use grml (http://grml.org/)

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Allow user to handle their own print jobs
by T 11 Nov '06

11 Nov '06

Hi How to allow users to handle their own print queue? $ lprm 26 Password for tong on localhost? How can I configure my Debian so that users can freely handle their own print jobs (not others), and not bothered with password every time? thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/

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X and Console, grml 0.8 , latest update last week
by Erich Minderlein 09 Nov '06

09 Nov '06

Hallo Mika Amilopro V2030, 256 MByte RAM, 1,5 GHz Celeron The video framebuffer eats a minimum of 16 MByte from this RAM, I cannot adjust less in the BIOS. (Choice of 16/32/64 MByte) 1. Sometimes the notebook is very sluggish on the console, it takes several seconds to react. (runlevel 2, no swap space used) I believe the zsh does it with looking for too many aliases) 2. Starting X with init 5 and logging in as user terminates the session immediately and the login screen reappears and the grml browser starts. This has to do with file permissions, I had it on debian sarge too, forgot how to fix it. 3. Changing to console with CTRL-ALT-F# (console number) does not erase the x window, but gives only writes of the whitish parts of the console output in an unreadable way, obviously the pixel lines / columns memory order is not realigned to the display mode. best regards -- Erich Minderlein <erminderlein(a)locoware.de> MARC Mannheim Rail Commerce GmbH

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Suggestions
by Michael Schierl 08 Nov '06

08 Nov '06

Hi, some things I noticed when using grml 0.8 recently that might be changed some day to make grml even better: 1. When loading grml on older machines there is a noticable delay (and cdrom activity) when there are loaded lots of screen and zsh instances into the virtual consoles. I'd like to have a cheatcode (or a runlevel) that only loads programs for console 1 at startup. Other consoles are loaded after a key has been pressed there. For those consoles that use rungetty, its --prompt option could be used to archieve this. 2. Having GRUB available on GRML is great. However, I'd like to have a few "Grub keyboard layouts" included for people who, unlike me, cannot find all that special chars like = or / on an American keyboard layout. You can find a German and a French layout on my bootdisk (or its config files) available at <http://home.arcor.de/mschierlm/bootdisk/>. On the other hand, you can save about 1MB on CD by using a 360KB floppy image instead of a 1.44MB one. (I tested it and chainloading a 360KB GRUB disk image from memdisk works.) 3. When, for some reason, I need grml booted on two machines and cannot use the grml-terminalserver (for example because I may not interfere with DHCP servers in the network and do not have a crossover network cable with me either) I like to use the toram option. But, obviously, it needs lots of RAM and time to get started. In these cases grml-small would be better. But I want to carry around as few disks as possible. So I thought if it is possible to splitting the squashfs image into two images that are merged by unionfs, where the smaller one contains a basic system that includes all stuff from grml-small (which may be larger than 50MB, but as small as possible) and have a cheatcode to load only the small part into ram (and not use the large part at all). I do not know if this is feasible in the grml build process (obviously it will require some extra work of splitting the image), but it would be cool. I don't know any live cd that tries to do things like this, so perhaps it is not possible...? 4. The bootsplash flickers quite a lot. You might reduce flickering by replacing the »/usr/bin/clear« by »echo -ne '\033[H\033[25l'« which will not clear the screen but move the cursor to top and set the cursor invisible. Another nice thing would be having boot messages scrolling in a small "window" inside the bootsplash, like it can be done by »ESC [ first ; last r« (see »man console_codes | less +/region«), but since I do not know how many users are using bootsplash anyway (I usually do not), this is just eye-candy and very low priority for me :-) Feel free to flame me now ;-) Michael

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Clean installs?
by s. keeling 07 Nov '06

07 Nov '06

I've done about four grml-small (latest version) installs so far. None of them have survived "apt-get update && apt-get upgrade" (and friends). Each time, a different package failed to install, holding up the rest of the upgrade. I have managed to get X installed, but it's sad that the rest of it won't go. I'll keep playing with it. My only real complaint is that grml2hd assumes my rtc is set to localtime. "utc" and "tz=Canada/Mountain" are quietly ignored. Nice system, and lots of fun to play with. :-) -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling Please don't Cc: me. - -

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Grml/Grml-small sort of progress report.
by s. keeling 06 Nov '06

06 Nov '06

A while back, I got the latest grml, burned it, and have now finally returned to it. Contrary to the last (0.7) version, this one actually sees a valid partition on my second hard drive, /dev/hdc. Grml proceeds to install and continues 'til it's killed. My disk is only 2 Gb, and Grml wants 2.7 Gb. So, I download grml-small, boot into it, and grml2hd[*] reports: ----------------------------------- Error: partition=/dev/hdc1 does not seem to be an existing partition. Please use a program like cfdisk to create partition partition=/dev/hdc1 and restart grml2hd. ----------------------------------- Both fdisk and cfdisk show the partition, and full Grml took it and ran with the install. So, what's grml-small's problem? Disk is a Seagate ST32122A [*] grml2hd partition=/dev/hdc1 mbr=/dev/hdc filesystem=ext2 \ user=keeling root=/dev/hdc1 -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling Please don't Cc: me. - -

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aamath - ascii art for math
by Mark 06 Nov '06

06 Nov '06

http://fuse.superglue.se/aamath/ "aamath is a program that reads mathematical expressions in infix notation and renders them as ASCII art. It may be useful to send mathematics through text-only media, such as e-mail or newsgroups."

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ipw2200 monitor mode
by carli graph 03 Nov '06

03 Nov '06

hi, i have grml@hd, ipw2200 modules -1.0.8 with linux-headers-2.6.16-grml, so i think it's grml 0.7 and don't know witch driverversion... and monitor mode doesn't work: # iwconfig eth0 mode monitor Error for wireless request "Set Mode" (8B06) : SET failed on device eth0 ; Invalid argument. please, does anyone know how to get working this? thanks, markus.

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autopano-sift on grml?
by Lars Schimmer 03 Nov '06

03 Nov '06

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi! I try to use hugin anf autopano-sift from debian-multimedia.org on my grml HD install. But if I try to run autopanog I just get the error: "zsh: fehler im Format der Programmdatei: autopanog" Has anyone a tip for me? MfG, Lars Schimmer - -- - ------------------------------------------------------------- TU Graz, Institut für ComputerGraphik & WissensVisualisierung Tel: +43 316 873-5405 E-Mail: l.schimmer(a)cgv.tugraz.at Fax: +43 316 873-5402 PGP-Key-ID: 0x4A9B1723 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (MingW32) iD8DBQFFSzxImWhuE0qbFyMRAqpUAKCJspvmYCITOdkLzKgAZFRwwy5sEACfaAxn jvVHp3fPJqyySUgYZAZziLY= =48e2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: [Grml] Is accessing striped "dynamic disks" from GRML possible?
by Ulrich Dangel 02 Nov '06

02 Nov '06

* Michael Schierl wrote [02.11.06 22:14]: Hi Michael, i resend this to the list, because probably you get some cool and nice suggestions for an console calculator :) > <offtopic> > Windows Internal, but it works... > </offtopic> Nice :-) > > Try the link above and build it on you're own. > But: What calculator to use in grml for all that hex/decimal conversions > (and multiplications and additions)? Try python. Just enter 0xfa or something and you get the corresponding decimal value. If you want the hex value of a decimal number, use hex($numer) and it works. You can calculate with hex values in bc when you set the base. Just do an ibase=16 and it should work. > There is no orpie (great console RPN calculator) and GNU Calculator > for Emacs is not there either. Okay, dc/bc is there, but I don't know > (and could not figure out by grepping the man page) how they can > handle hex numbers... Hm, i just tried orpie and i think python is much nicer, especially if you use ipython. > libgcc and libstdc++ are too old when "dpkg -i"-ing it from the > grml-0.8 CD. Thanks anyway. Hm, i used grml 0.8.3 or something like that, and it worked out of the box. I can rebuild it, if you really need it. > Michael Uli -- WARNING: RAID-6 is currently highly experimental. If you use it, there is no guarantee whatsoever that it won't destroy your data, eat your disk drives, insult your mother, or re-appoint George W. Bush. /usr/src/linux/drivers/md/Kconfig - 2.6.8

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Is accessing striped "dynamic disks" from GRML possible?
by Michael Schierl 02 Nov '06

02 Nov '06

Hi, I wanted to rescue some files from a broken Win2000 install with grml. The data to rescue were stored on a striped partition on a dynamic disk (Windows' equivalent to a software raid0). However, I did not manage it to reassemble or mount this partition. it appeared as two separate partitions (one on each drive). Google suggested to run ldminfo, but that tool is not there, and I could not find it :( I eventually managed to rescue the files by booting from a BartPE disk and using the commandline "diskpart" tool to reassemble the RAID and assign a drive letter to it. Does anyone know a way to access these files from grml? Or is it impossible to do this from Linux and I have to include a BartPE disk in my rescue disk set as well? TIA, Michael

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Re: [Grml] BadRam/BadMem Kernelpatch
by devzero＠web.de 01 Nov '06

01 Nov '06

>So IMO this would only be useful for private use. i don`t think so - at least i wouldn`t say it`s only usefule for private use if you mean "home use" - think of developing countries where people cannot afford replacing their ram because of just "one bit out of millions" is bad - think of companies with large test/development environments which are not mission critical. we have many boxes out of service contract at work - and we still use them until they die or getting too old - think of a server which constantly crashes during a recover you try with grml - due to bad ram. should you really buy new ram for that machine if it gets replaced, anyway - and you just need it being running stable for the recovery process ? maybe this is just a theoretical scenario, but the discussion about the pro`s and con`s of badram patch is very controversial. anyway - i heard there will be an request for inclusion into mainline soon. roland > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Andreas Gredler <jimmy(a)grml.org> > Gesendet: 30.10.06 13:55:46 > An: grml(a)mur.at > Betreff: Re: [Grml] BadRam/BadMem Kernelpatch > On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 03:02:15PM +0100, devzero(a)web.de wrote: > > Description: > > > > BadRAM: Linux kernel support for broken RAM modules Summary: This page > > proposes an approach to support RAMs with defective addresses, This > > may open interesting business perspectives, where those RAMs can be > > sold under a white label for less money rather than discarded of > > without any profit. > > If you talk about business... Broken RAM always gets replaced by new > modules, since this is mission critical and covered by warranty and/or > service contracts. Additionally, "real" servers mirror RAM and have spare > RAMs installed. > So IMO this would only be useful for private use. > > greets Jimmy > > -- > Andreas "Jimmy" Gredler > ,'"`. http://www.jimmy.co.at/ | jimmy(a)g-tec.co.at > ( grml.org -» Linux Live-CD for texttool-users and sysadmins > `._, http://www.grml.org/ | jimmy(a)grml.org > _______________________________________________ > 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/ _____________________________________________________________________ Der WEB.DE SmartSurfer hilft bis zu 70% Ihrer Onlinekosten zu sparen! http://smartsurfer.web.de/?mc=100071&distributionid=000000000066

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Starting domain name service bind failed
by T 01 Nov '06

01 Nov '06

Hi I used to use a caching only name server under Debian. When I start the same setting under grml, I get: % /etc/init.d/bind9 restart Stopping domain name service...: bindrndc: connection to remote host closed This may indicate that the remote server is using an older version of the command protocol, this host is not authorized to connect, or the key is invalid. failed! Starting domain name service...: bind failed! What could be wrong? Or, how to setup a caching only name server under grml? Thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/

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Re: mixing of distributions grml - unstable - testing - sarge for notebook
by Erich Minderlein 31 Okt '06

31 Okt '06

Hello Liste Thank you for the advice I have decided to keep to "grml", so from now the installation will become cleaner and cleaner. What when 0.9 is in the pipeline and comes out? best regards Erich Minderlein

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