Hi, Am Freitag, den 07.11.2008, 12:34 -0500 schrieb Stefan Monnier: > Some of the config changes I made that I think might be worth making in > the default install: > > - enable busybox's syslog daemon. I currently just start "busybox klogd" > and "busybox syslogd -C16" at startup, plus add a symlink "logread -> > busybox".
Could be looked into, yes. > - Move the ~/.xsession-error messages to the syslog. I don't do that > but my .xsession-errors is currently 4MB and constantly growing. > Of course, maybe the problem is in al those repeated messages I get > there like: > > checking for unsent messages > did not receive any unsent messages: org.freesmartphone.GSM.SIM.NotFound: > SimNotFound: org.freesmartphone.GSM.SIM.NotFound: Yes, maybe zhone should produce less output by default, or the loglevel adjusted. BTW, does the .xsession-errors file get reset after a reboot, as it does on a desktop machine after a re-login? If not, we need to check who’s task that is (gdm? some session scripts?) and make sure we get that on debian. > - install xglamo rather than xorg. It seems this is somewhat > controversial, but I think it makes sense to install the same server > used by the other FR distributions. It also appears to use > less diskspace. Aren’t there some severe and unresolved problems with xglamo and matchbox-keyboard? > - Make a symlink "/var/lib/apt/lists -> /var/cache/apt/lists" > But more importantly, mount tmpfs over /var/cache/apt. This saves > a good deal of disk space and in my case it also sped up apt-get > update significantly (I was seeing *major* performance problems where > the "gzip" process would take forever (literally: I tried letting it > run for a few hours) to finish; it seemed to be a problem of > horrendously slow write; this was back on the 512MB uSD card, > I haven't tried to reproduce it since moving to the NAND). > The downside of course, is that doing "apt-get update" will eat your > RAM unless you add some swap space. I find it OK: I just get used to > rebooting after installing|upgrading packages. > > - Actually IIRC mounting tmpfs over the apt lists area is mandatory on > the NAND because APT uses mmap on those files and jffs2 doesn't > support it (at least, that was the case last time I setup up my > "Debian USB Live" using jffs2). These two divert too far from a standard Debian system IMHO, and should not be default. But a good description of how and why doing so put at an appropriate place, maybe linked from the list at section “Using your Debian system” on http://wiki.debian.org/DebianOnFreeRunner would be good. > - install the sftp-server part of openssh-server (it's just 50KB; too > bad Debian currently requires you to install 7MB of files in order to > get it). It’s not packaged separately, and we could not use dropbear any more, right? > - Use a non-root account for the main X11 session. I haven't noticed > any downside, tho it may require some tweaks with sudo, but it makes > it more like a normal Debian system. No problem with zhone so far? Then we should definitely look into that for milestone 4. > BTW, among the space savings, I also noticed that the /lib/modules that > came with my Debian install was large (like 50MB) compared to about 5MB > for the /lib/modules that came with my Om2008.9 distribution, so when > I moved to NAND, I decided to use the Om kernel with its 5MB > /lib/modules. I think the rationale is that all features of the kernel should be available. We could group and separate them into packages if it becomes an issue. > > - /root/.xsession > > This is fundamental and should stay there like this, because > > otherwise at reboot Zhone will not come up > > I don't understand: neither root nor my main user has a ~/.xsession file > and I don't remember removing it, nor having to do anything special > to avoid it. You probably installed before we moved from zhone-session to nodm in the installer script. Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner Debian Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: 4743206C JID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata
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