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- <h1>FAQ</h1>
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- <p>Up2date: 20060122 - applies to version grml 0.6/grml-small 0.2</p>
-
- <p><a name="toc"></a><strong>Index:</strong></p>
-
- <p class="toc"><a href="#general">General:</a></p>
- <ol>
- <li><a href="#whatis">What is grml?</a></li>
- <li><a href="#get">Where do I get grml?</a></li>
- <li><a href="#whatmeans">What does grml mean?</a></li>
- <li><a href="#pronounce">How to pronounce grml?</a></li>
- <li><a href="#releasename">What about the release name?</a></li>
- <li><a href="#requirements">Requirements for running grml</a></li>
- <li><a href="#why">Why another Linux distribution?</a></li>
- <li><a href="#license">What's the license of grml?</a></li>
- <li><a href="#difference">What's the difference between grml and $OTHER-DISTRIBUTION? What are your main goals?</a></li>
- <li><a href="#knoppix">What's the difference between grml and Knoppix?</a></li>
- <li><a href="#accessibility">What does accessibility at grml mean?</a></li>
- <li><a href="#emulation">Is it possible to run grml with $EMULATOR?</a></li>
- <li><a href="#store">Is it possible to store my settings?</a></li>
- </ol>
-
- <p class="toc"><a href="#grmlsmall">grml-small:</a></p>
- <ol>
- <li><a href="#whatissmall">What is grml-small?</a></li>
- <li><a href="#smallvsnormal">What is the difference between 'normal' grml and grml-small?</a></li>
- <li><a href="#usb">How do I boot grml from an USB stick?</a></li>
- </ol>
-
- <p class="toc"><a href="#system">System</a>:</p>
- <ol>
- <li><a href="#configure">Which tools exist to configure grml?</a></li>
- <li><a href="#password">What are the passwords of users on grml?</a></li>
- <li><a href="#version">How to find out the version of grml</a></li>
- <li><a href="#remove_cd">Is it possible to run LiveCD and eject CD-ROM?</a></li>
- <li><a href="#language">How do I change the language/keyboard settings?</a></li>
- <li><a href="#kde_and_foo">KDE, Gnome, $FOO and $BAR</a></li>
- <li><a href="#wms">Which window managers can I use?</a></li>
- <li><a href="#booting">Which ways exist to boot grml?</a></li>
- <li><a href="#bugreport">Bugreport</a></li>
- <li><a href="#hdinstall">Is it possible to install grml to harddisk?</a></li>
- <li><a href="#hardware">I have problems with my hardware!</a></li>
- <li><a href="#boot">grml does not boot on my computer!</a></li>
- </ol>
-
- <p class="toc"><a href="#kernel">Kernel</a>:</p>
- <ol>
- <li><a href="#kernelconfig">Where can I find the configuration for the kernel used on grml?</a></li>
- <li><a href="#kernelpatches">Are there any special components/patches in the kernel used on grml?</a></li>
- <li><a href="#platform">Which platforms is the grml kernel optimized for?</a></li>
- </ol>
-
- <p class="toc"><a href="#software">Software:</a></p>
- <ol>
- <li><a href="#sw_general">General</a></li>
- <li><a href="#sw_version">What version of $PACKAGE is available?</a></li>
- <li><a href="#init">Init-System</a></li>
- <li><a href="#zsh">Why is zsh the default shell (/bin/sh)?</a></li>
- <li><a href="#bash">Is a bash available?</a></li>
- <li><a href="#setuid">setuid/SUID</a></li>
- <li><a href="#aide">aide</a></li>
- <li><a href="#bitchx">bitchx</a></li>
- <li><a href="#ispell">ispell</a></li>
- <li><a href="#latex">LaTeX</a></li>
- <li><a href="#slapd">slapd</a></li>
- <li><a href="#tripwire">tripwire</a></li>
- </ol>
-
- <p class="toc"><a href="#release">Release related issues</a>:</p>
- <ol>
- <li><a href="#known_issues">Are there any known issues with this release?</a></li>
- <li><a href="#ipw">Using IPW driver with DHCP</a></li>
- <li><a href="#wpa">Using WPA with >=2.6.13-grml</a></li>
- <li><a href="#proc_usb">Why isn't /proc/bus/usb mounted anymore?</a></li>
- </ol>
-
- <p class="toc"><a href="#xserver">X-Server</a></p>
- <ol>
- <li><a href="#xstart">How do I start the X server?</a></li>
- <li><a href="#xproblem">X does not start on my box?!</a></li>
- <li><a href="#xresolution">I don't like the resolution of X!</a></li>
- </ol>
-
- <p class="toc"><a href="#framebuffer">Framebuffer</a></p>
- <ol>
- <li><a href="#video">The boot option video does not work as expected anymore?</a></li>
- <li><a href="#fbprobs">I don't see anything when booting grml?!</a></li>
- </ol>
-
- <p class="toc"><a href="#question">Further questions</a></p>
-
- <h2><a name="general"></a><a href="#toc">General</a></h2>
-
- <h3><a name="whatis"></a><a href="#toc">What is grml?</a></h3>
-
- <p>grml is a bootable CD (Live-CD) based on <a
- href="http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/">Knoppix</a> and <a
- href="http://www.debian.org/">Debian</a>. grml includes a collection of
- GNU/Linux software especially for users of texttools and system
- administrators. grml provides automatic hardware detection. You can use grml
- as a rescue system, for analyzing systems/networks or as a working
- environment. It is not necessary to install anything to a harddisk. Due to
- on-the-fly decompression grml includes about 2.1 GiB of software and
- documentation on the CD.</p>
-
- <h3><a name="get"></a><a href="#toc">Where do I get grml?</a></h3>
-
- <p>You can download grml of course: take a look at <a
- href="http://grml.org/download">grml.org/download/</a>. If you want
- to get an original grml-CD including <a
- href="http://grml.org/files/#covers">the grml-cover</a>, need a
- special amount of CDs or want your own special grml-CD (including
- your logo, your software and/or special settings) <a
- href="http://grml.org/contact/">please don't hesitate to contact
- us</a>! Take a look at <a
- href="http://solutions.grml.org/">grml-solutions</a> for more
- information regarding our offers.</p>
-
- <h3><a name="whatmeans"></a><a href="#toc">What does grml mean?</a></h3>
-
- <p>grml is short for 'grummel' and comes close to 'argl' or 'grrr' in english. People
- use this when they want to express their dissatisfaction/discontentedness with software
- (amongst other things):</p>
-
-<pre class="rahmen">
-$ grep -ch grml .centericq/**/history | xargs echo | \
- sed 's/[0-9]*/& + /g' | sed 's/+ $//g' | bc -l
-3746</pre>
-
- <h3><a name="pronounce"></a><a href="#toc">How to pronounce grml?</a></h3>
-
-<pre class="rahmen">
-$ echo 'ghroummel' | festival --tts
-$ flite -o play -t gremel</pre>
-
- <h3><a name="releasename"></a><a href="#toc">What about the release name?</a></h3>
-
- <p>Codename of grml 0.6 is Winterschlapfn. This is austrian slang for the
- german word Winterreifen which stands for 'snow tyre'.</p>
-
- <p>Codename of grml-small 0.2 is Corry. Corry is the nickname of <a
- href="/team/">Michael Gebetsroither's</a> girlfriend.</p>
-
- <h3><a name="requirements"></a><a href="#toc">Requirements for running grml</a></h3>
-
- <ul>
- <li>Intel-compatible CPU (i586 or later, preferably Pentium class or higher)</li>
- <li>at least 64MB of RAM (for stable use with ramdisks for unionfs and udev and running X window system
- we recommend at least 128MB)</li>
- <li>grml-small: at least 32MB RAM should be available</li>
- <li>bootable CD-ROM drive (or a boot floppy and standard CD-ROM [IDE/ATAPI
- or SCSI]) [or network - see <a href="#terminalserver">grml-terminalserver</a>]</li>
- </ul>
-
- <h3><a name="why"></a><a href="#toc">Why another Linux distribution?</a></h3>
-
- <p>There already exist "<a
- href="http://www.distrowatch.com/">some</a>" distributions. We decided
- to base our work on the existing infrastructure of <a
- href="http://debian.org/">Debian</a> and <a
- href="http://www.knoppix.net/">Knoppix</a> because we don't want to reinvent
- the wheel. Some admins already use their own rescue-CD and Knoppix works but
- does not bring that many important tools for admins and users of texttools
- out of the box so we decided to share our work with others.</p>
-
- <h3><a name="license"></a><a href="#toc">What's the license of grml?</a></h3>
-
- <p>Anything written by the grml team is published under the GPL (<a
- href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html">GNU General Public License</a>).
- You don't have to pay anything for running grml. <a
- href="/donations/">Donations</a> and <a href="/contact/">feedback</a> are
- welcome of course. If you want to get a special LiveCD or need support take a
- look at <a href="http://solutions.grml.org/">grml-solutions</a>.</p>
-
- <h3><a name="difference"></a><a href="#toc">What's the difference between grml and
- $OTHER-DISTRIBUTION? What are your main goals?</a></h3>
-
- <p>The main goal of grml is to be a distribution well suited for
- users of texttools and sysadmins. grml includes many important
- texttools (of course awk, sed, grep,... but also zsh, mutt[ng],
- slrn, vim and many other stuff) and useful programs for admin's
- daily work too. grml uses the existing infrastructure of <a
- href="http://www.debian.org/">Debian</a>. grml was once based on <a
- href="http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/">Knoppix</a> (see '<a
- href="#knoppix">What's the difference between grml and
- Knoppix?</a>' for more details). We are merging
- useful things also from other distributions/live-cds to provide a
- perfect environment.</p>
-
- <h3><a name="knoppix"></a><a href="#toc">What's the difference between grml and Knoppix?</a></h3>
-
- <p>grml comes with a vastly different set of software. Missing KDE
- and OpenOffice provides the opportunity of shipping more than 800
- packages which Knoppix does not provide on it's CD version. grml
- boots a 2.6.x kernel but no X for faster startup. Knoppix is based
- on Debian/testing-experimental (using apt-pinning), but grml is
- basically based on plain Debian/unstable providing more current
- versions of software and less painfull upgrades. grml was once
- based on Knoppix but has nowadays (except of a similar initial
- ramdisk) nothing in common with Knoppix anymore:</p>
-
-<pre class="rahmen">
-# locate knoppix
-# find / -iname \*knoppix\*
-#</pre>
-
- <p>We consider Knoppix as a brand name for live-cds nowadays and
- provide most of Knoppix features as well. grml uses (mostly) the
- same cheatcodes for booting as Knoppix and provides even some extra
- ones. So if you are used to the basic Knoppix features you might
- find them on the grml-system as well. Ripping out the Knoppix
- stuff provides the possibility to create a grml system out of a
- Debian system and vice versa. Running 'apt-get install grml' on a
- Debian box will be officially supported in an upcoming version of
- grml.</p>
-
- <h3><a name="accessibility"></a><a href="#toc">What does accessibility at grml mean?</a></h3>
-
- <p>The grml kernel includes <a href="http://grml.org/kernel/#speakup">support for
- speakup</a> and provides software like brltty (using bootoption 'grml blind
- brltty=type,port,tbl'), emacspeak and flite.</p>
-
- <h3><a name="emulation"></a><a href="#toc">Is it possible to run grml with $EMULATOR?</a></h3>
-
- <p><a href="http://www.vmware.com/">VMWare</a> should work without any
- problems. It's also possible to run grml with <a
- href="http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/">QEMU</a>, an emulator for various
- CPUs which works on Linux, Windows, FreeBSD and Mac OS X. Running grml with
- QEMU has been tested successful on Windows and Linux, take a look at <a
- href="http://grml.org/qemu/">the QEMU-grml-webpage</a>.</p>
-
- <h3><a name="store"></a><a href="#toc">Is it possible to store my settings?</a></h3>
-
- <p>Yes. grml provides a powerfull config framework. See <a
- href="http://grml.org/config/">grml.org/config/</a>, <a
- href="file:///usr/share/doc/grml-saveconfig/grml-config.html">/usr/share/doc/grml-saveconfig/grml-config.html</a>
- and 'man save-config restore-config mkpersistenthome' for more
- details.</p>
-
- <h2><a name="grmlsmall"></a><a href="#toc">grml-small?</a></h2>
-
- <h3><a name="whatissmall"></a><a href="#toc">What is grml-small?</a></h3>
-
- <p>Whereas grml provides about 2.1GiB of software on a 700MB-ISO, grml-small
- is a flavor with online ~55MB ISO-size (~200MB uncompressed). It does not
- provide a lot of software but the essential stuff for being a rescue system
- on a business card CD-ROM or a small usb device. You can use the debian
- package management system to install software on the fly (assuming you have
- network access to a debian mirror). Take a look at the <a
- href="http://grml.org/files/">'Debian-Information'-section</a> if you are
- searching for the package list.</p>
-
- <h3><a name="smallvsnormal"></a><a href="#toc">What is the
- difference between 'normal' grml and grml-small?</a></h3>
-
- <p>The 700MB-grml brings more than 2370 packages of software and a <a
- href="http://grml.org/kernel/">full-featured kernel</a>. grml-small includes
- about 215 software-packages, lacks documentation and manpages on the ISO and
- has a stripped-down <a href="http://grml.org/kernel/">kernel</a> (but still
- provides hardware recognition of course). <a
- href="#terminalserver">grml-terminalserver</a> is <strong>not</strong>
- available/supported on grml-small.</p>
-
- <h3><a name="usb"></a><a href="#toc">How do I boot grml from an USB stick?</a></h3>
-
- <p>Take a look at the script <a
- href="http://grml.org/scripts/grml2usb">grml2usb</a>. For more details take a
- look at the <a href="http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=usb">usb-webpage in the
- grml-wiki.</a></p>
-
- <h2><a name="system"></a><a href="#toc">System</a></h2>
-
- <h3><a name="configure"></a><a href="#toc">Which tools exist to configure grml?</a></h3>
-
- <p>grml provides several scripts and tools which should make life easier. See 'dpkg -L grml-scripts' to get an
- overview about some main scripts. Run 'grml-config' to get a dialog interface for the most important scripts
- and tasks.</p>
-
- <h3><a name="password"></a><a href="#toc">What are the passwords of users on grml?</a></h3>
-
- <p>There are no default passwords. All accounts are locked by
- default. Even local logins are not possible (unless you set a
- password or create new user accounts as root). You can create
- valid passwords using "sudo passwd [username]" from the shell,
- individually.</p>
-
- <h3><a name="version"></a><a href="#toc">How to find out the version of grml</a></h3>
-
- <p>Run 'grml-version' or use the following command:</p>
-
-<pre class="rahmen">
-$ cat /etc/grml_version</pre>
-
- <h3><a name="remove_cd"></a><a href="#toc">Is it possible to run LiveCD and eject CD-ROM?</a></h3>
-
-<pre class="rahmen">
-$ sudo umount -l /cdrom
-$ sudo eject /dev/cdrom # now don't run any new programs ;)
-$ mount /dev/cdrom # mount it again if needed ;)
-</pre>
-
- <h3><a name="language"></a><a href="#toc">How do I change the language/keyboard settings?</a></h3>
-
- <p>By default grml uses english settings. But it is possible to
- change the settings via using either the bootparam(s) lang,
- keyboard and xkeyboard or via running grml-lang when grml is
- running already. Usage examples:</p>
-
-<pre class="rahmen">
-grml lang=de # enter this at the bootprompt and you will get
- # german keyboard layout and german $LANG, $LC_ALL,
- # $LANGUAGE...
-grml keyboard=de xkeyboard=de lang=at # enter this at the bootprompt
- # and you will get german keyboard and austrian
- # language variables
-$ grml-lang de # enter this in the shell to switch keyboard layout
- # and $LANG settings in a running grml-system
-</pre>
-
- <p>If you are running grml from harddisk (using <a
- href="#hdinstall">grml2hd</a>) you have several options how to set
- language options:</p>
-
- <ul>
-
- <li>adjust /etc/sysconfig/i18n to configure global language
- settings</li>
-
- <li>set $LC_ALL, $LANG $LANGUAGE in your ~/.xinitrc (before the
- 'exec $WINDOWMANAGER line' of course) to configure
- language behaviour of programs</li>
-
- <li>adjust /etc/sysconfig/keyboard to configure keyboard layout
- on console or run 'loadkeys $KEYTABLE' manually</li>
-
- <li>add 'setxkbmap $LANGUAGE' to the 'keybindings' section in
- your ~/.xinitrc to configure keyboard setup in X window system
- (deactivate the xmodmap lines if necessary)</li>
-
- </ul>
-
- <h3><a name="kde_and_foo"></a><a href="#toc">KDE, Gnome, $FOO and $BAR</a></h3>
-
- <p>Why isn't KDE, Gnome, $FOO or $BAR part of grml? grml is a distribution
- for users of texttools and sysadmins. If you would like to run KDE with
- Debian use e.g. <a href="http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/">Knoppix</a>, <a
- href="http://www.munjoylinux.org/">Munjoy-Linux</a>, <a
- href="http://kanotix.com/">Kanotix</a> or <a
- href="http://www.kubuntu.org/">Kubuntu</a>. Gnome users might find <a
- href="http://www.ubuntulinux.org/">Ubuntu</a> useful. If you would like to
- see a special (software) package inside grml please <a
- href="http://grml.org/report/">report it to us</a>!</p>
-
- <h3><a name="wms"></a><a href="#toc">Which window managers can I use?</a></h3>
-
- <p>grml is shipped only with window managers which are lightweight and
- fast - so well suited for a live-cd. At the moment grml provides the window managers:
- <a href="http://www.6809.org.uk/evilwm/">evilwm</a>,
- <a href="http://www.fluxbox.org/">fluxbox</a>,
- <a href="http://modeemi.cs.tut.fi/~tuomov/ion/">ion3</a>,
- <a href="http://joewing.net/programs/jwm/index.shtml">jwm</a>,
- <a href="http://pekwm.org/">pekwm</a>,
- <a href="http://www.nongnu.org/ratpoison/">ratpoison</a>,
- <a href="http://www.plig.org/xwinman/vtwm.html">twm</a>,
- <a href="http://www.grassouille.org/code/w9wm/README">w9wm</a>,
- <a href="http://www.nickgravgaard.com/windowlab/">windowlab</a>,
- <a href="http://wmii.de/">wmi and wmii</a>.</p>
-
- <p>If you are new to grml and/or prefer an easy-to-use-desktop run 'grml-x
- wm-ng' for starting fluxbox with idesk and gkrellm.</p>
-
- <a name="terminalserver"></a>
- <h3><a name="booting"></a><a href="#toc">Which ways exist to boot grml?</a></h3>
-
- <p>The most common way to boot grml is of course via running from
- CD-ROM. But grml provides many more ways to boot grml:</p>
-
- <p>It is possible to boot grml via USB (e.g. usb stick or harddisk),
- firewire or running from a compact flash disk. It works out of the
- box, you don't need to modify anything. If accessing the device
- fails use the 'scandelay' cheatcode on bootprompt. So boot with
- 'grml scandelay'. If the timeout is still not long enough add the
- time to wait in seconds as parameter: 'grml scandelay=15'. See <a
- href="http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=usb">usb-webpage in the
- grml-wiki</a> for more details.</p>
-
- <p>Your computer can not boot from CD-ROM but provides a floppy
- disk? Take a look at <a
- href="http://btmgr.webframe.org/">btmgr</a>, <a
- href="http://ubcd4win.com/faq.htm#floppy">ubcd4win</a> or <a
- href="http://linux.simple.be/tools/sbm">sbm</a>. They provide
- support for booting from CD-ROM via a special floppy disk.</p>
-
- <p>grml-terminalserver provides the possibility to boot your system
- via network. If you have a floppy drive you can even boot your
- system over network when your network card does not provide
- PXE-support! For more information refer to the <a
- href="http://grml.org/terminalserver/">grml-terminalserver-webpage</a>.</p>
-
- <h3><a name="bugreport"></a><a href="#toc">Bugreport</a></h3>
-
- <p>Report bugs via the tool reportbug which is part of the package
- grml-reportbug and provided with the grml system. If you don't know
- how to handle reportbug either take a look at <a
- href="http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=bugs">the bugs-webpage in
- the grml-wiki</a> or you can send us your bug report via the <a
- href="http://grml.org/bugs/">bugs-webpage</a>.</p>
-
- <h3><a name="hdinstall"></a><a href="#toc">Is it possible to install grml to harddisk?</a></h3>
-
- <p>Yes. grml provides a tool called grml2hd (see '<a
- href="http://grml.org/grml2hd/grml2hd.html">man grml2hd</a>'). grml
- is developed on a box running the grml-system itself and we - the
- grml-developers - especially like grml2hd because it gives us a
- working Linux box within 10 to 30 minutes! grml2hd is perfect for
- prototyping: test hardware support of Linux, test a specific
- setup,... You can use grml2hd even in a full automatic mode without
- any further interaction. More information is available on <a
- href="http://grml.org/grml2hd/">grml.org/grml2hd/</a> and <a
- href="http://grml.org/grml2hd/grml2hd.html">man grml2hd</a>.</p>
-
- <h3><a name="hardware"></a><a href="#toc">I have problems with my hardware!</a></h3>
-
- <p>Take a look at the script grml-hwinfo. This scripts generates a
- file namend info.tar.bz2 which contains important information about
- your hardware. If you think we might help you please run
- grml-hwinfo and send us the file with additional, relevant
- information regarding your problem.</p>
-
- <h3><a name="boot"></a><a href="#toc">grml does not boot on my computer!</a></h3>
-
- <p>Please take a look at <a
- href="http://grml.org/files/grml-cheatcodes.txt">the available
- bootparamters and cheatcodes</a> and '<a href="#booting">Which ways
- exist to boot grml?</a>'. Especially booting with 'acpi=off noapm
- noapic' might help. Bootparameter 'failsafe' provides a minimal
- hardware recognition. You still have problems? Please <a
- href="http://grml.org/contact/">contact us</a>!</p>
-
- <h2><a name="kernel"></a><a href="#toc">Kernel</a></h2>
-
- <h3><a name="kernelconfig"></a><a href="#toc">Where can I find the configuration for the kernel used on
- grml?</a></h3>
-
- <p>See /boot/config-`uname -r` and on <a href="http://grml.org/kernel/">the kernel-webpage</a>.</p>
-
- <h3><a name="kernelpatches"></a><a href="#toc">Are there any special components/patches in the kernel
- used on grml?</a></h3>
-
- <p>grml uses the currentmost stable vanilla Linux kernel from <a
- href="http://www.kernel.org/">www.kernel.org</a> with some
- additional patches. More information and an all-in-one patch is
- available on the <a
- href="http://grml.org/kernel/">kernel-page</a>.</p>
-
- <h3><a name="platform"></a><a href="#toc">Which platforms is the grml kernel optimized
- for?</a></h3>
-
- <p>Plain i586 compatibility-mode with SMP deactivated to avoid problems with
- specific systems and drivers. (Notice: grml-small provides a kernel with SMP
- support.)</p>
-
- <h2><a name="software"></a><a href="#toc">Software</a></h2>
-
- <h3><a name="sw_general"></a><a href="#toc">General</a></h3>
-
- <p>Want to run a program as root? Just use 'sudo $PROGRAM'. To get a
- root-shell run 'sudo su'.</p>
-
- <p>Problems with a specific package? Please try 'dpkg-reconfigure $foo'.
- Still encountering difficulties? Please send us a <a
- href="http://grml.org/bugs/">bugreport</a>!</p>
-
- <h3><a name="sw_version"></a><a href="#toc">What version of $PACKAGE is
- available?</a></h3>
- <p>Take a look at the dpkg_...-files in the <a
- href="http://grml.org/files/#debian">Debian-Information section on
- grml.org/files/</a>. </p>
-
- <h3><a name="init"></a><a href="#toc">Init-System</a></h3>
-
- <p>Why is grml using runlevel 2 as default? Because runlevel 2 is 'the
- textonly one' and it's debian's default.</p>
-
- <p>Where are all the /etc/rc#.d-directories? grml doesn't use
- sysv-rc but file-rc. This means you can configure the init system
- in one single file namend /etc/runlevel.conf with your favourite
- editor. No symlink-hell anymore.</p>
-
- <h3><a name="zsh"></a><a href="#toc">Why is zsh the default shell (/bin/sh)?</a></h3>
-
- <p>Short answer: because zsh rocks.</p>
-
- <p>Longer answer taken from <a href="http://zsh.sunsite.dk/FAQ/zshfaq01.html#l3">ZSH
- FAQ: 1.2: What is it?</a>:</p>
-
- <cite> Zsh is a UNIX command interpreter (shell) which of the standard shells most
- resembles the Korn shell (ksh); its compatibility with the 1988 Korn shell has been
- gradually increasing. It includes enhancements of many types, notably in the
- command-line editor, options for customising its behaviour, filename globbing, features
- to make C-shell (csh) users feel more at home and extra features drawn from tcsh
- (another `custom' shell).</cite>
-
- <p>If you don't know zsh take a look at <a
- href="http://zsh.sunsite.dk/FAQ/zshfaq02.html#l9">ZSH FAQ: How does zsh
- differ from...?</a>, 'man zsh | less -p COMPATIBILITY' and '<a
- href="http://grml.org/zsh/">man zsh-lovers</a>'.</p>
-
- <p>If you are a bash-user and don't know the zsh yet don't be afraid. bash is largely a
- subset of zsh and you don't have to throw away your knowledge about shell-stuff.</p>
-
- <h3><a name="bash"></a><a href="#toc">Is a bash available?</a></h3>
-
- <p>grml uses the <a href="#zsh">zsh</a> as the default shell but of
- course a current version of the bash (as many other shells as well)
- is provided by grml anyway.</p>
-
- <h3><a name="setuid"></a><a href="#toc">setuid/SUID</a></h3>
-
- <p>If you set a programm SUID (setuid/mode 4755) unprivileged users on your system will
- be able to run it. This <em>could</em> be a potentially security hole so by default the
- packages are configured not to install binaries with setuid. If you want to use the
- binaries with setuid please run 'dpkg-reconfigure $packagename' or 'chmod 4755
- =programm'. The following packages are well known to have a programm with not-set
- setuid:</p>
-
- <ul>
- <li>hddtemp</li>
- <li>pconsole</li>
- <li>pdsh</li>
- <li>prospect</li>
- <li>rssh</li>
- <li>scponly</li>
- <li>sing</li>
- </ul>
-
- <h3><a name="aide"></a><a href="#toc">aide</a></h3>
-
- <p>Before AIDE can be used, you will have to initialize a database. In order to do
- this, simply run the following command:</p>
-
-<pre class="rahmen">
-/usr/sbin/aideinit</pre>
-
- <h3><a name="bitchx"></a><a href="#toc">bitchx</a></h3>
-
- <p>Why isn't bitchx part of grml? <a
- href="http://www.google.com/search?q=bitchx+sucks">bitchx
- sucks</a>. Please use a better alternative like <a
- href="http://irssi.org/">irssi</a> or <a
- href="http://weechat.flashtux.org/index.php?lang=en">weechat</a>
- which are part of grml.</p>
-
- <h3><a name="ispell"></a><a href="#toc">ispell</a></h3>
-
- <p>You don't want to use the preselected default for ispell? Run
- 'select-default-ispell' for changing it.</p>
-
- <h3><a name="latex"></a><a href="#toc">LaTeX</a></h3>
-
- <p>auctex and preview-latex are loaded by default in emacs. If you want to load
- auctex based on your personal settings put the string "(require 'tex-site)" in your
- ~/.emacs, for preview-latex use the string '(load "preview-latex")'.<br />
- To change this run 'dpkg-reconfigure auctex' and/or 'dpkg-reconfigure
- preview-latex'.</p>
-
- <h3><a name="slapd"></a><a href="#toc">slapd</a></h3>
- <p>The password for the admin entry in the LDAP directory is 'grml'.</p>
-
- <h3><a name="tripwire"></a><a href="#toc">tripwire</a></h3>
-
- <p>The site-key pass-phrase and the local key pass-phrase for tripwire are 'grml'.</p>
-
- <h2><a name="release"></a><a href="#toc">Release related issues</a></h2>
-
- <h3><a name="known_issues"></a><a href="#toc">Are there any known issues with this release?</a></h3>
-
- <p>We won't hide anything. Therefor we do provide all known
- issues/bugs publicly available:</p>
-
- <ul>
- <li><a href="http://bugs.grml.org/">bugs.grml.org</a> (BTS)</li>
- <li><a href="http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=grml_0.6">issues regarding
- grml 0.6</a> and <a
- href="http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=grml-small_0.2">issues regarding
- grml-small 0.2</a> in <a href="http://wiki.grml.org/">the
- grml-wiki</a></li>
- </ul>
-
- <p>If you found another bug or consider any problems not yet
- mentioned <a href="#bugreport">please report it to us</a>!</p>
-
- <h3><a name="ipw"></a><a href="#toc">Using IPW driver with DHCP</a></h3>
-
- <p>The ipw-drivers in grml already contain special fixes for fixing
- problems with ipw and kernel >=2.6.13. But you might have to run
- 'iwlist $DEVICE scanning' (adjust $DEVICE with the corresponding
- network device) anyway to get an associated connection to the access
- point.</p>
-
- <h3><a name="wpa"></a><a href="#toc">Using WPA with >=2.6.13-grml</a></h3>
-
- <p><a href="http://www.kernel.org/">Vanilla kernel</a> include
- wireless extensions now (starting with 2.6.13: version 18
- [12.3.05]). The ipw2200 module uses the wireless extensions
- instead of custom ioctl()s now. As a result you have to use
- '-Dwext' for wpa_supplicant to use the wireless extensions when
- wpa_supplicant is running. Adjust $OPTIONS in
- /etc/default/wpasupplicant, for example using:</p>
-
-<pre class="rahmen">
-OPTIONS="-Dwext -i eth1 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf"</pre>
-
- <h3><a name="proc_usb"></a><a href="#toc">Why isn't /proc/bus/usb mounted anymore?</a></h3>
-
- <p>Starting with kernel 2.6.14 /dev/bus/usb replaces usbfs.
- Current versions of libusb check for /dev/bus/usb's existence and
- /proc/bus/usb is not necessary anymore (see <a
- href="http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=336596">#336596</a>).
- Of course 'mount /proc/bus/usb' still works, it is just not mounted
- by default anymore. If you consider any problems please <a
- href="#bugreport">report them</a>.</p>
-
- <h2><a name="xserver"></a><a href="#toc">X-Server</a></h2>
-
- <h3><a name="xstart"></a><a href="#toc">How do I start the X server?</a></h3>
-
- <p>Please use 'grml-x' as user grml for starting X. It generates
- the config file /etc/X11/xorg.conf and lets you start commands on
- startup (see ~/.xinitrc). Use it for example via switching to TTY4
- (press Alt+F4) and run the following command to start window
- manager fluxbox:</p>
-
-<pre class="rahmen">
-grml-x fluxbox</pre>
-
- <h3><a name="xproblem"></a><a href="#toc">X does not start on my box?!</a></h3>
-
- <p>grml-x supports several options. If you want to set some special options
- please take a look at the grml-x manpage (man grml-x)! Some usage examples:</p>
-
-<pre class="rahmen">
-grml-x -display 8 fluxbox # start fluxbox on display 8
-grml-x -force -nostart # force creation of xconfig file and don't start X server
-grml-x -hsync 60 fluxbox # set horizontal frequency and start fluxbox
-grml-x -hsync 60 -vsync 40 fluxbox # set horizontal and vertical sync frequencies and start fluxbox
-grml-x -mode '800x600' fluxbox # set resolution to 800x600 and start ion3
-grml-x -module vesa fluxbox # start fluxbox and use vesa module
-</pre>
-
- <h3><a name="xresolution"></a><a href="#toc">I don't like the resolution of X!</a></h3>
-
- <p>Just run xrandr to switch the resolution. For example: 'xrandr -s
- 1024x768'.</p>
-
- <h2><a name="framebuffer"></a><a href="#toc">Framebuffer</a></h2>
-
- <h3><a name="video"></a><a href="#toc">The boot option video does not work as
- expected anymore?!</a></h3>
-
- <p>grml versions 0.4 and 0.5 provided <a
- href="http://grml.org/kernel/#vesafbtng">vesafb-tng</a> instead of
- normal vesafb. Starting with grml 0.6 and grml-small 0.2 vesafb-tng
- is not part of the grml-kernel anymore because it caused too many
- problems. Therefor you can use the 'normal' vga=... option
- again.</p>
-
- <h3><a name="fbprobs"></a><a href="#toc">I don't see anything when booting grml?!</a></h3>
-
- <p>Probably this is a problem with vesafb framebuffer. Try to boot
- with bootoption 'nofb' or 'grml vga=normal'.</p>
-
- <h2><a name="question"></a><a href="#toc">Further questions</a></h2>
-
- <p>Do you have a question which is not answered in the FAQ or in
- the provided <a href="http://grml.org/docs/">documentation</a>
- (also run 'grml-info' on your grml-system)? Run 'grml-tips
- $KEYWORD' on your grml-system. Take a look at <a
- href="http://grml.org/">the grml-website</a> and <a
- href="http://wiki.grml.org/">the grml-wiki</a>. Please don't
- hesitate to <a href="http://grml.org/contact/">contact us</a>, a
- good place to start is the <a
- href="http://grml.org/mailinglist/">grml mailinglist</a>.</p>
-
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