Linux-Misc Digest #458, Volume #27 Tue, 27 Mar 01 09:13:03 EST
Contents:
Macromedia Flash - development tools, support in community etc. ("Thomas Weholt")
Re: Macromedia Flash - development tools, support in community etc. (Franck Guillaud)
Re: Queuing Algo = Scheduler ??? (Bart Friederichs)
Re: Partition table is defect ... (Arnaud Kok)
On-demand dialing ("Dennis")
Re: Partition table is defect ... ("Eric")
Which batch WAV editor? ("Kilian A. Foth")
Re: Audio CD recording problems (Spyros Tsiolis)
Re: sorry I must be in the dark ages everyone has RH 7.0 NT (Spyros Tsiolis)
VCD Software (Young4ert)
Re: Audio CD recording problems (Federico Bravo)
Re: OMS requires glib but doesnt find it (G Tselentis)
Re: Making .bat-file in linux (Lew Pitcher)
Re: Audio CD recording problems (Bart Friederichs)
Re: Setting up my own News Server ("Rodger Dusatko")
Re: Audio CD recording problems (Federico Bravo)
getty (Zdravko Balorda)
Re: Setting up my own News Server ("Rodger Dusatko")
Cracked Server (ImaLuzer)
Re: Audio CD recording problems (Bart Friederichs)
Logrotate (ImaLuzer)
Re: Logrotate ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: mem and swap problem (Gabor Takacs)
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From: "Thomas Weholt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
no.it.os.unix.linux.diverse,alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.development.apps
Subject: Macromedia Flash - development tools, support in community etc.
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 12:44:47 +0200
Hi,
I'm just doing some research on Macromedia FLASH ( swf );
1. What development tools are available for linux users?
2. What are the views on flash among linux users?
Any info, opinions, flames etc. related to flash are welcome
Best regards,
Thomas
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From: Franck Guillaud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
no.it.os.unix.linux.diverse,alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.development.apps
Subject: Re: Macromedia Flash - development tools, support in community etc.
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 12:48:36 +0200
Thomas Weholt wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm just doing some research on Macromedia FLASH ( swf );
>
> 1. What development tools are available for linux users?
Search for the 'ming' library on freshmeat.net.
Franck.
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From: Bart Friederichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.unix.programmer,comp.os.linux.networking,alt.os.linux,comp.os.ms-windows.networking.misc
Subject: Re: Queuing Algo = Scheduler ???
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 11:36:35 GMT
Hi,
..
> The many documentations found on the web apparently interchange the terms
> queuing algorithm and scheduler frequently...
That's right. When I was paying attention in my OS-classes (and I think
I did, I got an B- for it ;-)), a queueing algorithm IS a scheduler. The
scheduler decides which process is next to use the processor, and thus
it is making a queue.
Bart
--
=======================================================================
The internet is a too slow way of doing things you'd never do without
it.
Bart Friederichs, 1998
=========================================================================
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From: Arnaud Kok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Partition table is defect ...
Date: 27 Mar 2001 11:49:30 GMT
Alexander Reil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all!
> I am only interested in saving the data from /dev/hdb10.
> I tried the following things:
> gpart - didn't find my partitions
> partimage - same as gpart
Maybe you can try rescuept. You can find it (plus a short descitpion) at
my homepage:
http://www.phys.uu.nl/~akok
Grt,
Arnaud.
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From: "Dennis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: On-demand dialing
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 15:38:36 +0400
Hi
I have set up IP masquerade on Red Hat Linux 7.
>From the server and other Windows workstations I can browse the web. No
problem.
However I need to manually establish the ppp dial-up connection from the
server each time a Windows machine wants to connect.
I want the workstations to be able to launch that ppp connection
automatically from their browser(& mail client).
How do i do this setup?
Thanks
Regards
Dennis
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From: "Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Partition table is defect ...
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 13:53:07 +0200
> The partition-table of one of my hard disks is defect. Every time i try a
> "fdisk -l /dev/hdb" the result is different to the one before. The most
> realistic output from fdisk seems to be the following:
that's scary.
> fdisk -u -l /dev/hdb
>
> Disk /dev/hdb: 128 heads, 63 sectors, 787 cylinders
> Units = sectors of 1 * 512 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hdb1 * 63 983167 491552+ 6 FAT16
> Partition 1 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
> phys=(0, 0, 1) logical=(0, 1, 1)
> Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings:
> phys=(126, 32, 63) logical=(121, 117, 53)
> Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary:
> phys=(126, 32, 63) should be (126, 127, 63)
> /dev/hdb2 1024128 6338303 2657088 5 Extended
> /dev/hdb5 1024191 2048255 512032+ 6 FAT16
> /dev/hdb6 * 2048319 3031423 491552+ 6 FAT16
> /dev/hdb7 3072447 4096511 512032+ 6 FAT16
> /dev/hdb8 4096575 4817663 360544+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hdb9 4838463 5806079 483808+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hdb10 5806143 6330623 262240+ 83 Linux
>
> I am only interested in saving the data from /dev/hdb10.
> I tried the following things:
> gpart - didn't find my partitions
> partimage - same as gpart
> dd if=/dev/hdb of=/data/rescue_hdb10 bs=512 skip=5806142 count=524480
> I can't mount /data/rescue_hdb10 as ext2 filesystem, because "mount" tells
> me, there is no correct superblock.
> e2fsck tells me the same.
when not using the image, can you still mount /dev/hdb10 ?
if not, run the following script on /dev/hdb10 :
#!/bin/bash
#
# try to find an ext2 superblock location
#
i=0
OUTPUT_FILE="/path/to/a/file"
while (true)
do
dd if=/dev/hdb10 of=$OUTPUT_FILE bs=512 count=4 skip=$i 2> /dev/null
test_var=`file $OUTPUT_FILE |grep filesystem`
if [ "A$test_var" != "A" ]
then
echo "$test_var at $i"
fi
i=$(($i+1))
done
Eric
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From: "Kilian A. Foth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Which batch WAV editor?
Date: 27 Mar 2001 11:52:38 GMT
Greetings,
what is the tool of choice for cutting large chunks off a whooping big
.wav, *without* first rendering the entire file graphically? I just
want to retrieve the item I want from an hour-long unsupervised
recording. Is there a tool that will just let me say
$ wavcut -start 5m -stop 5m -o interesting.wav huge.wav
or should I write my own?
--
I am not speaking for Cisco Systems, Inc.
In fact, I don't even work for them.
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Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 12:56:21 +0100
From: Spyros Tsiolis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Audio CD recording problems
Or it could be that your tracks are smudged
by fingertips on the cd .
Did you see any "+" signs on cdparanoia when
it was doing the rippin ?
If , yes, then this is the most likely reason
for bad writing back to a cd-r.
Just my experience. could be something else.
s.
Bart Friederichs wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I extracted a whole CD using cdparanoia and thus have a bunch of .wav
> files. But when I try to write those on a CD, only track 1 goes well.
> cdrecord complains about 'no preemp swab'. Converting them to .cdr also
> doesn't work. Am I doing something wrong? The CD-R howto says to write
> them all at once but shouldn't it be possible to write them one at a
> time (I'd say yes, how would you make mixed CD's otherwise?).
>
> Looks like cdparanoia creates bad .wav's.
>
> TIA
> Bart Friederichs
> --
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> The internet is a too slow way of doing things you'd never do without
> it.
> Bart Friederichs, 1998
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 12:57:40 +0100
From: Spyros Tsiolis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: sorry I must be in the dark ages everyone has RH 7.0 NT
Yeah but you don't want to install RH7.0
it has gcc broken.
s.
Chimpsky wrote:
>
> NT
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From: Young4ert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: VCD Software
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 12:07:45 GMT
Hi,
I have setup my linux system to be able to watch TV/Cable (have not tried
to record the channels, yet). I need to find out what software are needed
to make a VCD from the recorded channels. Any pointers?
TIA.
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From: Federico Bravo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Audio CD recording problems
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 12:34:08 GMT
Bart Friederichs wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I extracted a whole CD using cdparanoia and thus have a bunch of .wav
> files. But when I try to write those on a CD, only track 1 goes well.
> cdrecord complains about 'no preemp swab'. Converting them to .cdr also
> doesn't work. Am I doing something wrong? The CD-R howto says to write
> them all at once but shouldn't it be possible to write them one at a
> time (I'd say yes, how would you make mixed CD's otherwise?).
>
> Looks like cdparanoia creates bad .wav's.
>
> TIA
> Bart Friederichs
> --
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> The internet is a too slow way of doing things you'd never do without
> it.
> Bart Friederichs, 1998
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
What was your cdrecord invocation like exactly?
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From: G Tselentis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: OMS requires glib but doesnt find it
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 14:37:24 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Markku Kolkka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > G Tselentis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >> configure: error: Cannot find GLIB: Is glib-config in path?
> >>
> >> I've got a full Mandrake 7.2 installation (latest one, with latest
> >> kernel and x windows). I tried to download the GLIB mentioned ... I
> >> did, installed it and everything and still gave me that error. HOWEVER
> >> ... when I'm my normal username and i type glib-config ... it runs it!
> >> But when im root, it doesnt
>
> > It's rather obvious that glib-config isn't in root's path (it's
> > different from regular users'). Find where it's located and change
> > root's path accordingly (edit /root/.bash_profile).
>
> A better advice would be to avoid doing anything more than is strictly
> necessary as root. For example, compiling stuff can be safely done by
> a normal user! Only "make install" needs to be run as root (and it is
> even possible to make this step unnecessary if you give the right
> permissions on /usr/local).
>
first of all, thanx for the replies :) secondly, I had the idea of doing
what u said, and so I did ... but now I get a different error message, on
the same subject! here it is ...
checking for glib-config... /usr/local/bin/glib-config
checking for GLIB - version >= 1.2.5...
*** 'glib-config --version' returned 1.2.9, but GLIB (1.2.8)
*** was found! If glib-config was correct, then it is best
*** to remove the old version of GLIB. You may also be able to fix the error
*** by modifying your LD_LIBRARY_PATH enviroment variable, or by editing
*** /etc/ld.so.conf. Make sure you have run ldconfig if that is
*** required on your system.
*** If glib-config was wrong, set the environment variable GLIB_CONFIG
*** to point to the correct copy of glib-config, and remove the file
config.cache
*** before re-running configure
no
configure: error: Cannot find GLIB: Is glib-config in path?
I went and re-read the the glib INSTALL file and it said that before I
'make install', if I'm installing on top of an old glib install, I must
delete the files glib.o and gmodule.o from /usr/local/include directory. I
did that, re-ran the install procedure (even did a 'make clean' and deleted
config.cache to make sure) of glib, and I still got that error message! so
im really confused ... and i didnt want to go tamper with /etc/ld.so.conf
or the environment variables mentioned in the error message because I'm not
sure what they are used for ... maybe you can enlighten me on that too :)
thanx for the help
g.t.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lew Pitcher)
Subject: Re: Making .bat-file in linux
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 12:56:30 GMT
On 26 Mar 2001 22:33:01 GMT, Jeremiah DeWitt Weiner
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Dowe Keller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Let me explain. Under Un*x type OSes, if the first line of a file
>> contains:
>> #!/usr/bin/foo
>> Then the shell passes the file to the program "foo", living in the
>> /usr/bin directory. The program "foo" then interprets the file.
>
> Dowe, I knew that. In fact, if you look at earlier articles, you'll
>see I posted that exact fact. I was asking why /bin/bash is used for files
>which DO NOT contain the #! line.
I believe that it's not /bin/bash in particular, but is instead the
default shell for your session that is used on scripts that do not
contain the #! line.
In other words, if you change your default shell to ksh, then it will
be ksh that will interpret the script by default. Likewise, if you
change to zsh, then zsh interprets the script.
Lew Pitcher
Information Technology Consultant
Toronto Dominion Bank Financial Group
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
(Opinions expressed are my own, not my employer's.)
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From: Bart Friederichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Audio CD recording problems
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 13:03:35 GMT
>
> What was your cdrecord invocation like exactly?
cdrecord -v speed=4 dev=0,0,0 -audio track1.wav
and then,
cdrecord -v speed=4 dev=0,0,0 -audio track2.wav
etc.
Got it straight from the CD-writing howto
Bart
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From: "Rodger Dusatko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Setting up my own News Server
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 15:10:47 +0200
> PS:Please, try not to crosspost so much...
All further discussions are in comp.os.linux.misc
Rodger Dusatko
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From: Federico Bravo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Audio CD recording problems
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 13:22:14 GMT
Bart Friederichs wrote:
> >
> > What was your cdrecord invocation like exactly?
> cdrecord -v speed=4 dev=0,0,0 -audio track1.wav
>
> and then,
> cdrecord -v speed=4 dev=0,0,0 -audio track2.wav
>
> etc.
>
> Got it straight from the CD-writing howto
>
> Bart
Well, it seems like you're trying to burn a CD-R more than once. That's
not possible. You could make a multi-session CD-R but I wouldn't see the
point of it. Nevertheless no preemp and swab are not errors, just
information about the type of data you're dealing with (little endian
and no preemphasis). Why don't you try moving to the directory where you
have all your .wav files and then burn the CD-R with:
cdrecord -v speed=4 dev=0,0,0 -audio "track*.wav"
By the way, when if I want to make a 'backup' copy of my own CD Audio I
use the following to extract all tracks in raw format:
cdparanoia -B -p -d/dev/hdd 1-
I hope this helps.
Federico.
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From: Zdravko Balorda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: getty
Date: 27 Mar 2001 13:09:10 GMT
Hi,
where does "login" come from in single user S mode?
I have a broken linux that won't let me login in S mode.
regards, Zdravko.
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From: "Rodger Dusatko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Setting up my own News Server
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 15:23:35 +0200
Michael,
Thank you for your help.
I do have a dedicated server (www.compaqconfigurator.com). However, the news
conference doesn't have to be on our server. We have many customers who use
our software (commercial) and I would like for us to have a news server for
installation, known problems, wish list for new versions, etc.
We use the Cobalt Linux 6.0 Shinkansen-Decaf version.
I looked at the leafnode documentation, but am not sure if this is what we
are looking for.
Simply stated, I would like to start about 4 newgroups which could be
accessed by our customers.
(1. installation, 2. known problems, 3. wish list for new versions, 4. How
to do...)
I am willing to start them also on some other computer if it is too hard to
start them on our own.
> I'm not sure if I understood what you mean, a real news feed will cost
some
> money, if you only want to make some ng available, I would suggest using
leafnode
I am also willing to pay something, since this is for our company.
Rodger Dusatko
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From: ImaLuzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Cracked Server
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 08:34:35 -0500
I had a server get cracked. I wiped the HD and reinstalled everything. I
believe that someone used a buffer overrun attack to install a rootkit, but
I'm not sure. Will disabling anonymous FTP negate a malicious person's
ability to apply this crack again?
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From: Bart Friederichs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Audio CD recording problems
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 13:33:27 GMT
Federico Bravo wrote:
>
> You could make a multi-session CD-R but I wouldn't see the
> point of it.
Yeah, well. When you want to add some extra later, but I omitted the
-multi flag to cdrecord when I recorded track1, so...
> cdrecord -v speed=4 dev=0,0,0 -audio "track*.wav"
Hmm, well yes, only the "track*.wav" didn't work, but an enumeration of
the .wav files did. Its burning now ;))
Too bad I have a single-session CD with just one track of 4 mins on it
now. But hey, there are worse things in the world (like Windows).
Thanks
Bart
>
> By the way, when if I want to make a 'backup' copy of my own CD Audio I
> use the following to extract all tracks in raw format:
>
> cdparanoia -B -p -d/dev/hdd 1-
>
> I hope this helps.
> Federico.
--
=======================================================================
The internet is a too slow way of doing things you'd never do without
it.
Bart Friederichs, 1998
=========================================================================
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From: ImaLuzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Logrotate
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 08:41:04 -0500
I've been looking for descriptive HOWTOs on logrotate but have been comming
up short. I looked at my access_log and noticed it was a wopping 125MB and
said, that ain't good. After investigating I found that logrotate will do
what I want but I can't find any info (other than some MAN pages - rather
cryptic) that show some examples and such.
Can someone point me to a good HOWTO on this? The docs I've found so far
reference conf files and such, but my setup seems to be a bit different than
the "default" that they refer to.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Logrotate
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 13:56:48 GMT
ImaLuzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I've been looking for descriptive HOWTOs on logrotate but have been
> comming up short. I looked at my access_log and noticed it was a
> wopping 125MB and said, that ain't good. After investigating I found
> that logrotate will do what I want but I can't find any info (other
> than some MAN pages - rather cryptic) that show some examples and
> such.
> Can someone point me to a good HOWTO on this? The docs I've found so
> far reference conf files and such, but my setup seems to be a bit
> different than the "default" that they refer to.
Every Linux distribution seems to potentially have its own variation
on this; I happen to rotate my logs using something called cfengine,
which definitely isn't "logrotate."
You may want to look in /usr/share/doc, and try to head to the
subdirectory named "logrotate" or "logrotate*" for further
documentation; that would be the canonical location to find more than
just man pages...
--
(reverse (concatenate 'string "gro.gultn@" "enworbbc"))
http://www.ntlug.org/~cbbrowne/resume.html
Twice five syllables
Plus seven can't say much but
That's haiku for you.
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From: Gabor Takacs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.misc,linux.redhat,linux.redhat.misc,linux.support.commercial,redhat.config,redhat.general
Subject: Re: mem and swap problem
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 08:47:25 -0500
Instead of trying to set it to 256M try for a few hundres k less.
Sharkster wrote:
> Im running RH 7 on a PII 300 with 256 meg ram. The system is only
> recognizing 64 meg and has already adjusted the swap accordingly.
> I have already edited the lilo.conf with the " append="mem=256M". Ive run
> the LILO and rebooted. The system is still only recognizing 64 meg.
> Did I miss something in there and what was it. How can I adjust my swap to
> match the 256m.
>
> Sharkster
> 61517946
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