Re: [Grml] Re: Sugestion - zsh logout

2006-11-25 Thread Ulrich Dangel
* Mark wrote [26.11.06 04:48]: > > > [ wipe HISTFILE ] > > Why dont just set SAVEHIST to zero or set HISTFILE to /dev/zero. > > Yes that works. Some people do. It's less secure but works. What is the different? If you wipe HISTFILE in /etc/zlogout a user could change in $HOME/.zlogout histfi

Re: [Grml] Debian repos based on locale

2006-11-25 Thread Ulrich Dangel
* Mark wrote [26.11.06 04:41]: > Default apt sources for grml are .de & .at domains. For grml proper, > ok. For external Debian packages, default apt sources based on locale > would be nice. (Debian.org subdomains make this fairly easy, yes?) Hm, netselect-apt should make this pretty easy, i th

[Grml] Re: Sugestion - zsh logout

2006-11-25 Thread Mark
> Why dont just set SAVEHIST to zero or set HISTFILE to /dev/zero. Yes that works. Some people do. It's less secure but works. > > Very appropriate for mobile USB devices that change hands (or get > > lost!). > > why you dont just encrypt We do, of course. The command line history is a sec

[Grml] Debian repos based on locale

2006-11-25 Thread Mark
Default apt sources for grml are .de & .at domains. For grml proper, ok. For external Debian packages, default apt sources based on locale would be nice. (Debian.org subdomains make this fairly easy, yes?) The user should get continental selection between Europe, Africa, Asia, North America, So

Re: [Grml] Re: Sugestion - zsh logout

2006-11-25 Thread Ulrich Dangel
* Mark wrote [26.11.06 04:28]: > > Small suggestion : > > in the /etc/zsh/logout I added the small word > > > > "reset" > > > > which automatically leaves a clean console when logging out. > > I like that and nobody nosing around. also security concern. clear should be the right way, because

[Grml] Re: Sugestion - zsh logout

2006-11-25 Thread Mark
> Small suggestion : > in the /etc/zsh/logout I added the small word > > "reset" > > which automatically leaves a clean console when logging out. > I like that and nobody nosing around. also security concern. We second the idea. (Maybe diskwipe the zsh history?) Very appropriate for mobile U

[Grml] Sugestion - zshl logout

2006-11-25 Thread Erich Minderlein
Hi Since my first Linux Day sometimes in 1997 I was a bash shell user, made a lot of scripting and was happy. Now I found grml and its zsh and it is sssupeerr. Small suggestion : in the /etc/zsh/logout I added the small word "reset" which automatically l

[Grml] slow start of xserver , very poor responsiveness with nohwcap

2006-11-25 Thread Erich Minderlein
Hello see also my contributions @ http://lists.mur.at/pipermail/grml/ where I followed before on this subject Hardware : Amilo Pro Notebook V2030 Inter celeron , 1,5 GHz, 256 MByte RAM, VGA Via <6>ACPI: Video Device [VGA] (multi-head: yes rom: no post: no) -- CGA/Mono Video supported

Re: [Grml] Boot USB sans IDE noise

2006-11-25 Thread Michael Prokop
* Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20061122 04:15]: > One user noticed that older IDE drives (CD, HDD) make noise, depending > on age, case vibrations. His USB drive is very quiet. He boots grml > from that. > Can he boot from USB without powering IDE drives? Grml has an orderly > IDE power-off proce

Re: [Grml] amilopro slow : solution (part if it)

2006-11-25 Thread Michael Prokop
* Erich Minderlein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20061125 03:15]: > during a login to the x-server the strace reveals that 472 file accesses > to /etc/ld.so.nohwcap result with -1, because the file is nowhere and > also not there. > touch /etc/ld.so.nohwcap helps partly, > it would

Re: [Grml] amilopro slow : solution (part if it)

2006-11-25 Thread roland
hello! touch /etc/ld.so.nohwcap helps partly, it would even be better, if the file is not a million times asked for. you should tell this to the x-server people what`s going on there. :) roland ps: i always wondered, why x-server do need such a long time to start. now i know! - Origi

[Grml] Re: Boot USB sans IDE noise

2006-11-25 Thread Mark
> noflushd [snip] > > At least it's a partial answer But noflushd wants to remove laptop-mode-tools. Check this out: http://www.samwel.tk/laptop_mode/tools/faq.html Spinning Down May Kill Hard Drives Desktop hard drives are usually rated for only 40,000-50,000 spinups, and one spinup ev

[Grml] Re: Boot USB sans IDE noise

2006-11-25 Thread Mark
Maybe this package can work: noflushd Description: allow idle hard disks to spin down Noflushd is a daemon that spins down disks that have not been read from after a certain amount of time, and then prevents disk writes from spinning them back up. It's targeted for laptops but can be used on