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USERGROUPS=no ?
by Wolfgang Scheicher 28 Sep '06

28 Sep '06

Since still nobody could give me a reason why every user should have his own group (or can you?) i prefer setting USERGROUPS=no in /etc/adduser.conf experimenting with remastering grml i found out that there are some places with a "chmod grml.grml <dir>" ( /etc/grml/autoconfig.functions, /etc/init.d/grml-home ) I think by changing this to "chmod grml: <dir>" we would support both ways. Well, and since i would like it that way, i'm requesting that little change :) Worf

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unsubscribe 13x7bc william.windels@telenet.be
by William Windels 26 Sep '06

26 Sep '06

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Rerunning lilo
by Scott Ford 25 Sep '06

25 Sep '06

Hi everyone, I am new to the list and Linux. I installed GRML on my Toshiba a55. I am blind and I was able to resize my hard drive, and install the grml to the hard drive with no problem. This is what I had partitioned my hard drive to, hda1 26G, hda2 2g fat32, hda3 1G Linux swap, and hda4 Linux. Thank you guys for setting up such an awesome distribution. I have been looking for this for a long time. I have been reading and learning . I figured that I would reconfigure my hard rive so that I had an extended partition. This is what I changed it to hda1 26G ntfs, hda2 1G Linux swap, hda33G Linux, hda4 extended, hda5 fat16 5G, and hda6 4G Linux. I reran the grml2hd script, it went well, it said that lilo ran successfully. However it did not. So I mounted hda3 the Linux partition, and copied the /mnt/hda3/etc/lilo.conf to the /etc/lilo.conf. I then ran /sbin/lilo It failed saying that /dev/hda3 is not set to be active. I then discovered that the line /device/hda3 was in the place where /dev/had been in my original configuration. I attempted to change it to /dev/had. I tried to rerun lilo again, it failed attempting to map to unmapped device oxoee or something. I am sorry I did not write exactly what it said down. However I believe that you guys probably are familiar with what is happening. I do not have a clue though. I cannot seem to find any thing on what is happening on the net either. Thank you guys in advanced. Scott -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.12.8/455 - Release Date: 9/22/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.12.8/455 - Release Date: 9/22/2006 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.12.8/455 - Release Date: 9/22/2006

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Filesystem not clean on boot up
by T 24 Sep '06

24 Sep '06

Hi What's the difference between using the command "reboot" and let the keyboard trigger the "init 6" to reboot? I notice I always get the "Filesystem not clean" message having switched over to grml when rebooting. I trigger the reboot via keyboard to issue init 6. Didn't notice so when using Debian Sarge though. Can I rely on keyboard/HW triggers for reboot or poweroff, or I'd better type the command? Or, the Grml is more a live system which has skips some steps that normal non-live systems will do when shutdown? I'm using the reiserfs systems. thanks

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Fwd: Rerunning lilo
by Steffen Liebergeld 23 Sep '06

23 Sep '06

I think this was meant for the mailing list... Anfang der weitergeleiteten E-Mail: > Von: "Scott Ford" <w8sef(a)sbcglobal.net> > Datum: 23. September 2006 04:46:29 MESZ > An: "'Steffen Liebergeld'" <stepardo(a)gmail.com> > Betreff: Rerunning lilo > > Hi everyone, > I am new to the list and Linux. I installed GRML on my Toshiba a55. > I am blind and I was able to resize my hard drive, and install the > grml to > the hard drive with no problem. This is what I had partitioned my > hard > drive to, hda1 26G, hda2 2g fat32, hda3 1G Linux swap, and hda4 Linux. > Thank you guys for setting up such an awesome distribution. I have > been > looking for this for a long time. I have been reading and > learning . I > figured that I would reconfigure my hard rive so that I had an > extended > partition. This is what I changed it to hda1 26G ntfs, hda2 1G > Linux swap, > hda33G Linux, hda4 extended, hda5 fat16 5G, and hda6 4G Linux. I > reran the > grml2hd script, it went well, it said that lilo ran successfully. > However > it did not. So I mounted hda3 the Linux partition, and copied the > /mnt/hda3/etc/lilo.conf to the /etc/lilo.conf. I then ran /sbin/ > lilo It > failed saying that /dev/hda3 is not set to be active. I then > discovered > that the line /device/hda3 was in the place where /dev/had been in my > original configuration. I attempted to change it to /dev/had. I > tried to > rerun lilo again, it failed attempting to map to unmapped device > oxoee or > something. I am sorry I did not write exactly what it said down. > However I > believe that you guys probably are familiar with what is > happening. I do > not have a clue though. I cannot seem to find any thing on what is > happening on the net either. Thank you guys in advanced. > Scott > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.12.8/455 - Release Date: > 9/22/2006 > > -- mfg, Steffen Liebergeld A charlatan makes obscure what is clear; a thinker makes clear what is obscure. -- Hugh Kingsmill

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Cream for VIM
by Mark 23 Sep '06

23 Sep '06

http://www.linuxwiki.org/Cream X11 only but would be nice addition for grml. Just some scripts, little space. It could get more people acquainted with VIM, too. M

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a good file manager
by T 23 Sep '06

23 Sep '06

[Trying my luck here. This is not the 1st or 2nd time that my email is blocked by some smart anti-spam system.] Subject: Recommend a file manager Newsgroups: gmane.linux.debian.user Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 16:55:27 +0200 Hi Please recommend a file manager. I need a good one to make my wife happy. We used to settle with the the file manager that comes default with Gnome, but now that one can't rename files any more (it actually can initially, but stop responding to keyboard very soon). please help thanks

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A view requests to make remastering easier
by Wolfgang Scheicher 22 Sep '06

22 Sep '06

I've experimented quite a bit with remastering grml. Basically i wanted to do change the package list to about that what i have on my desktop, which basically is mostly kde and kde apps, stuff like quanta, kile, etc... I'm quite there now, it works almost the way i want it. To have it working perfectly i would only need a view changes/additions to the grml scripts: *) option to change the default windowmanager - not hardcoding wm-ng in /etc/grml/autoconfig.functions *) options to start x on boot, so you can either - don't do anything - just create xorg.conf, but don't start xorg - create xorg.config and start xorg well, that's basically it. :) Worf

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grml-x generated xorg.conf issues
by Wolfgang Scheicher 22 Sep '06

22 Sep '06

The test setup: - GForce2MX - Samsung Syncmaster 940B (a 19" tft) - Logitech MX500 mouse on USB. I consider my setup not that exotic, but there are some problems with the xorg.conf that grml-x generates: *) The frequency for tft's should be 60Hz. I have to run grml-x with the option -hsync 60-60, don't know if it's possible to have this detected automatically. *) I get 2 Entries for mouse in the xorg.conf One "USB Mouse" and one "PS/2 Mouse". This would not be that bad actually, but both use device /dev/input/mice, resulting in a unusable x (double mouse speed and every klick being a double klick) I think this needs some tweaking :) Worf

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Forensic use of grml
by Ralf Moll 20 Sep '06

20 Sep '06

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'm a german police officer and sick of all the boot-cds around. I want to build a boot-cd / pxe-image for me and other people around based on grml because I like shell and debian / ubuntu. Currently I'm using a customized HELIX CD * http://e-fense.com/helix/ which is quite ok but "difficult" to customize. My plans are building ONE grml with the forensic tools I need or (which would be better) include all tools in the official grml-cd. I need a CD for booting outside our lab and a pxe-version inside our lab. The pxe-part rocks already. So here are the things I need to include: * libewf - Free tool to create and write back EnCase-Images * https://www.uitwisselplatform.nl/projects/libewf/ * A.I.R. Cloning HDs for mausschubser ;) * http://air-imager.sourceforge.net/ Additionally it would be cool to add a special hot-plug scipts for hds: if there is a scpecial id-file / volume-name automatically mount the hd as /media/destination-hd for faster hd-cloning. So, how can I do this and is there someone around who want's to help me? First of all one question: how can i add a additional dir to the cd for running e.g. libewf if I boot the "normal" grml v0.8 via PXE / NFS? Or can I place the unzipped ISO-Content in a NFS-Share and do there all the modifications I need? Further I will create a forensic-page in the grml-wiki and do the doku. greetings from Heilbronn, Germany, ralf -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFDo0kbMz/fBOR9IURAu1YAKCRAexh51NVw0VUIvN+rMAMM7D72ACffIsr yqjgHjiIR9qaUp6Tf2HFBnM= =Sqoy -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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FYI: Printing on remote CUPS server via lpr (package cupsys-bsd)
by "Robert Zöhrer | pronet.at" 19 Sep '06

19 Sep '06

Hi, while seeting up grml (HD-install) as my new working environmnet, I wanted to print on my CUPS printer server via cups-client from my grml running notebook: Printing via "old" (BSD style) commands lpr $somefile always returns something like: "jobs queued, but cannot start daemon." and no page was printing :( Because "lpstat -o -p -d" shows all available printer queues, I was perplexed After playing around a bit I noticed that # aptitude show lpr Unable to find an archive "grml" for the package "lpr" Package: lpr State: installed ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ is the problem. When printing via CUPS you need the wrapper package "cupsys-bsd" instead of "lpr" to be installed - otherwise all print jobs are handled by old BSD style lpr queue :/ This is _not_ really a grml bug, but maybe coexistent installing both of these packages should be thought over. Maybe this report helps other folks with same troubles -- Regards, Dipl.-Ing. Robert ZÖHRER Mail: robert.zoehrer(a)pronet.at GPG Key ID: 0x218139D9 Mobil: +43 699 177 66 380 ______________________________________________ PRONET IT & Security Services Krenngasse 27 | A-8010 Graz | Austria | Europe Tel: +43 316 817218-0 | Fax: +43 316 817218-99 http://www.pronet.at PROfessionell & PROduktiv

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ZFS for Linux ("real soon now")
by Mark 19 Sep '06

19 Sep '06

This file system is more solidly engineered than any other, it seems. Not yet for Linux, but someday? http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20051117-5595.html http://linux.inet.hr/zfs_filesystem_for_linux.html http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/ The ext2/3 stuff is really getting old. It's too bad Linux has not incorporated or "clean-roomed" the supremely good fs out there. M

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wishlist: better site navigation
by T 17 Sep '06

17 Sep '06

Hi I found that grml site is not that easy to quickly location information. Last time, when promoting grml-small in debian-users, it took me quite a while to find the link url to grml-small (the info, not its problems). Now I'm trying to find all packages available in grml 0.8. I remember seeing such page on grml before, but can't find it any more. Mika, please put it at least in grml 0.8 Release Notes, and if you have time, maybe it is good to think of a strategy to enable better navigation on grml site. thanks

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Grml mysql services
by T 17 Sep '06

17 Sep '06

Hi I notice that the mysql services in grml is different that I used to use. I used to only have the "mysql" service, but grml default is that "mysql" service is disabled while other two mysql-ndb-mgm & mysql-ndb are enabled: $ grep mysql /etc/runlevel.conf 19 - 2,3,4,5 /etc/init.d/mysql-ndb-mgm 20 0,1,6 - /etc/init.d/mysql 20 0,1,6 2,3,4,5 /etc/init.d/mysql-ndb 21 0,1,6 - /etc/init.d/mysql-ndb-mgm What are those two other two "mysql" service? Can they substitute the "mysql" service? If I enable the "mysql" service myself, should I disable the other two? The reason I'm asking is that I get the following error when trying to install a package that depends on mysql: ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2) thanks

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php in grml
by T 17 Sep '06

17 Sep '06

Hi Which version of php is used in grml? I can't verify with official grml packages, but mine seems to have been messed up: ii php-pear PEAR - PHP Extension and Application Repository ii php4-common Common files for packages built from the php4 source ii php5-cgi server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language (CGI binary) ii php5-cli command-line interpreter for the php5 scripting language ii php5-common Common files for packages built from the php5 source ii php5-mysql MySQL module for php5 Do php4 & php5 have to be all installed in grml? It has confused one of my newly installed package. thanks

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Ubuntu ReplacementInit
by Mark 17 Sep '06

17 Sep '06

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReplacementInit http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/knot3 Ubuntu going where grml has gone before. M

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Updating a Devel Harddisk Installation
by Johannes Stiegler 14 Sep '06

14 Sep '06

Hi everybody, i'm just wondering, if it's possible to upgrade a grml2hd installation of a devel version of grml. As i'm using the harddisk installation on one of my computers, and i don't want to reinstall with each new devel-release, this would very convenient. I did a quick search on the web and the mailinglist, respectively, but i didn't find something. So would be nice if this will work:-) Cheers Johannes

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grml repository problem?
by T 13 Sep '06

13 Sep '06

Hi Any problem with the grml repository? This is what I get: $ aptitude upgrade The following packages will be upgraded: grml-etc 1 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 7 not upgraded. Need to get 674kB of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] Err http://grml.org ./ grml-etc 0.8-10 404 Not Found

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XFCE 4.4RC1 binary debs available
by Mark 13 Sep '06

13 Sep '06

Grml users could test before the RC goes final: http://xfce-diary.blogspot.com/2006/09/xfce-44-release-candiate-1.html#c115… deb http://xfce.corsac.net/ sid main "these are build for debian sid/unstable, but should work on debian-clones too, as far the dependencies are ok (this should be the case, if you are using some 4.4 beta) i think these packages should hit unstable soon, as everybody loves to see xfce 4.4 final in etch in december"

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PySDM
by Mark 12 Sep '06

12 Sep '06

Possibly interesting in relation to recent grml developments (fstab generation etc.). http://pysdm.sourceforge.net

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Re: RFC: handling of external usb devices
by Michael Prokop 11 Sep '06

11 Sep '06

(Readded grml-user and grml-devel mailinglists to Cc so other users and devs stay informed as well.) * Mark <27e3kk302(a)sneakemail.com> [20060911 03:15]: > > Ok, I just took some minutes to finally implement it. > > (grml-)rebuildfstab supports LABELs and UUIDs now. > Fantastic. In response to the solicitation for feedback: > An issue we have with USB hard drives is that /mnt subfolders get stale > as hardware changes. Grml creates the /mnt subfolders, but never > deletes them. Obviously not a problem for live CDs, but it is for USB. ACK, good catch. > It would be nice if grml would delete /mnt subfolders for hardware that > it does not detect at boot. > So, how can grml know that it (not the user) created the folder. If the > user created a /mnt subfolder grml probably should not delete it > automatically. > Well, my suggestion: Every time grml creates a /mnt subfolder, drop an > empty file into it named ".grml-auto-created-do-not-delete-this-file" or > something like that. Actually, grml could put useful data into the file > (such as date, UUID, filesystem type, etc.). This file lets grml know > that it has permission to delete the folder. Nice idea! I just implemented it. :) Now running [grml-]rebuildfstab handles the /mnt/*-directories as well. It generates directories for all defined "mounting-targets" and adds an entry to /mnt/.grml-auto-created-do-not-delete-this-file for all automatically generated devices as well. When running [grml-]rebuildfstab once more it checks for present entries and deletes all auto-generated directories in /mnt if there does not exist an entry in /etc/fstab anymore. If you manually create a directory in /mnt/ it won't be touched at all. I'm just preparing the packages grml-rebuildfstab-0.3 and grml-scanpartitions-0.3 and write documentation for all the new stuff. When I've finished testing the packages I'll upload them to the grml-repos and will included them in the upcoming grml 0.8-1 develrelease so you see it in action. :) regards, -mika- -- You like grml? Help us! http://grml.org/donations/ Already on the grml-user-map? http://www.frappr.com/grmlusers Grml Solutions http://solutions.grml.org/

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RFC: handling of external usb devices
by Michael Prokop 11 Sep '06

11 Sep '06

Hello, I'd like to ask for your comments about handling of external usb devices on grml. As you might know mounting usb pens on grml is possible via running 'mount /mnt/external1' (corresponding to /dev/sda1) and 'mount /mnt/external' (corresponding to /dev/sda). As stated in a mail by Tong to the grml user mailinglist the problems start with multiple devices or devices with several partitions on it. I'd like to improve usability and handling of it therefore. Thanks for input goes to Tong and Alexander Steinboeck, please read on for details about my solution. ################################################################################ /mnt/external[1] will be left without any changes, we will stay completely backwards compatible. Additionally we will create /dev/usb-sd* devices via udev rules like: # cat /etc/udev/usbpen.rules SUBSYSTEM=="block", BUS=="usb", KERNEL=="sd[a-z]*", ACTION=="add", SYMLINK+="usb-%k", GROUP="users", NAME="%k" SUBSYSTEM=="block", BUS=="usb", KERNEL=="sd[a-z]*", ACTION=="add", RUN+="/bin/mkdir -p /mnt/usb-%k" SUBSYSTEM=="block", BUS=="usb", KERNEL=="sd[a-z]*", ACTION=="add", RUN+="/bin/sleep 2" SUBSYSTEM=="block", BUS=="usb", KERNEL=="sd[a-z]*", ACTION=="add", RUN+="/usr/sbin/create_mnt_labels" SUBSYSTEM=="block", BUS=="usb", KERNEL=="sd[a-z]*", ACTION=="add", RUN+="/usr/sbin/rebuildfstab -r -u 1000 -g 1000" ACTION=="remove", KERNEL=="sd[a-z]*", RUN+="/usr/sbin/rebuildfstab -r -u 1000 -g 1000" ACTION=="remove", KERNEL=="sd[a-z]*", RUN+="/bin/rmdir /mnt/usb-%k", OPTIONS="last_rule" So we have the following devices available when plugging in an usb pen with 4 partitions on it: # ls -la /dev/usb* /dev/external* /dev/sd* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2006-09-03 17:25 /dev/external -> sda lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2006-09-03 17:25 /dev/external1 -> sda1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2006-09-03 17:25 /dev/external2 -> sda2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2006-09-03 17:25 /dev/external3 -> sda3 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2006-09-03 17:25 /dev/external4 -> sda4 brw-rw---- 1 root users 8, 0 2006-09-03 17:25 /dev/sda brw-rw---- 1 root users 8, 1 2006-09-03 17:25 /dev/sda1 brw-rw---- 1 root users 8, 2 2006-09-03 17:25 /dev/sda2 brw-rw---- 1 root users 8, 3 2006-09-03 17:25 /dev/sda3 brw-rw---- 1 root users 8, 4 2006-09-03 17:25 /dev/sda4 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2006-09-03 17:25 /dev/usb-sda -> sda lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2006-09-03 17:25 /dev/usb-sda1 -> sda1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2006-09-03 17:25 /dev/usb-sda2 -> sda2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2006-09-03 17:25 /dev/usb-sda3 -> sda3 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2006-09-03 17:25 /dev/usb-sda4 -> sda4 According to that we will have the following directories available in /mnt: # ls -lad /mnt/[eu]* drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2006-03-08 19:55 /mnt/external/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2006-03-08 19:55 /mnt/external1/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2006-09-03 17:25 /mnt/usb-sda/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2006-09-03 17:25 /mnt/usb-sda1/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2006-09-03 17:25 /mnt/usb-sda2/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2006-09-03 17:25 /mnt/usb-sda3/ drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2006-09-03 17:25 /mnt/usb-sda4/ As /dev/sda4 contains a labeled filesystem the script /usr/sbin/create_mnt_labels will create a new directory in /mnt: # vol_id /dev/sda4 ID_FS_USAGE=filesystem ID_FS_TYPE=xfs ID_FS_VERSION= ID_FS_UUID=dc79eb17-9f98-49c7-9cfc-10d8fd279215 ID_FS_LABEL=foobar ID_FS_LABEL_SAFE=foobar # ls -la /mnt/foobar total 8 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2006-09-03 18:05 ./ drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 2006-09-03 18:05 ../ So mounting via label is possible therefore too with root-permissions: # mount -L foobar /mnt/foobar /etc/fstab will be updated as well (see the udev rule above, 2 seconds delay so we really catch all devices) and therefore will look like: # cat /etc/fstab [...] # Added by GRML /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 ntfs noauto,nouser,dev,suid,exec,ro,umask=000,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0 # Added by GRML /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 vfat noauto,nouser,dev,suid,exec,umask=000,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0 # Added by GRML /dev/sda2 /mnt/sda2 vfat noauto,nouser,dev,suid,exec,umask=000,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0 # Added by GRML /dev/sda3 /mnt/sda3 vfat noauto,nouser,dev,suid,exec,umask=000,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0 # Added by GRML /dev/sda4 /mnt/sda4 vfat noauto,nouser,dev,suid,exec,umask=000,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0 # Added by GRML /dev/usb-sda /mnt/usb-sda auto users,noauto,nodev,noatime,nosuid,noexec,rw,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0 # Added by GRML /dev/usb-sda1 /mnt/usb-sda1 auto users,noauto,nodev,noatime,nosuid,noexec,rw,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0 # Added by GRML /dev/usb-sda2 /mnt/usb-sda2 auto users,noauto,nodev,noatime,nosuid,noexec,rw,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0 # Added by GRML /dev/usb-sda3 /mnt/usb-sda3 auto users,noauto,nodev,noatime,nosuid,noexec,rw,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0 # Added by GRML /dev/usb-sda4 /mnt/usb-sda4 auto users,noauto,nodev,noatime,nosuid,noexec,rw,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0 So you have the old /dev/sd* entries as usual and additionally the new, but more restricted ones meant for use as normal user. Mounting as user with uid 1000 (= user grml on the live-cd) is possible via running for example "mount /mnt/usb-sda2". As soon as you unplug the usb device /etc/fstab will be updated again so all invalid/not-anymore-existing entries will be removed automatically. The /mnt/usb-sd* directories will be deleted as well. The fs-label directories in /mnt won't be deleted automatically. If you want to disable the above feature at all on your grml system you would just have to remove the according udev rules file. This will be documented of course. ################################################################################ Please let me know what you think about it. If you're happy with this solutions I'd implement it so you can test it in real-live with the upcoming grml 0.7-1 devel-release. 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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new grml release available: grml 0.8
by Michael Prokop 11 Sep '06

11 Sep '06

Hoi, I'm proud to be able to present a new grml release: grml 0.8 with codename funkenzutzler is available. For more information regarding grml 0.8 take a look at: http://grml.org/files/README-0.8.php Issues regarding the release can be found in the grml-wiki at http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=grml_0.8 Download: http://grml.org/download/ Thanks to all of you who helped to improve grml! Happy hacking and enjoy grml! regards, -mika- -- You like grml? Help us! http://grml.org/donations/ Already on the grml-user-map? http://www.frappr.com/grmlusers Grml Solutions http://solutions.grml.org/

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with deepest apologies
by Martin Yazdzik 09 Sep '06

09 Sep '06

My curiosity gets the better of me.... start debug, date gives NY, login as root, date still gives NY. login as yazdzik, but use root terminal, date gives Wien, thus explaining why the admin mode of kcontrol does so, as it is using a different tty, so to speak. So, now we know: 1. debug mode, date is always correct, NY 2. whether debug or normal grml boot, gdm always gives correct date reading when logged in as root or user 3. in X(gdm) su to root in zsh gives date as Wien, not NY, as does gksu terminal, as does kcontrol as root (or switching to admin mode via gui in kcontrol), irrespective of desktop(kde, gnome, flux) 4. logging into kde from gdm as root, kcontrol gives correct reading, NY 5. kdm always gives wrong date reading - at reboot, bios is reset to CEST, so next boot is six hours ahead of NY time. Note well, not to GMT, but CEST!!! So, all relevant information is there - what causes this and how do we remedy it? An ashamed and sorry Martin begs for patience and forbearance. (duldsam comes out weird in English ;) ) Any ideas at all? -M

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Video geometry 1152x864 missing
by Mark 08 Sep '06

08 Sep '06

It's a "standard" geometry, see table inside section 5.3: http://debian.mcc.ac.uk/non-debian/Howtos/Framebuffer-HOWTO-5.html with a whole column just for 1152x864. It's missing from grml's X configuration scripts: grep "1152x864" /etc/X11/xorg.conf.example grep "1152x864" /usr/bin/grml-x grml of course has the other geometries: grep "1024x768" /etc/X11/xorg.conf.example grep "1024x768" /usr/bin/grml-x

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