Linux-Misc Digest #459, Volume #27 Tue, 27 Mar 01 10:13:02 EST
Contents:
Re: PDF Writer (Jean-David Beyer)
Help! CDRecord - mp3-to-wav Conversion Problem! (Doug Mitton)
Re: Default dir now /usr/bin? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: The death of MS Office? (Jean-David Beyer)
Re: real size of a file in a filesystem ... (Jean-David Beyer)
Adding disk to raid0 w/reiserfs ("Hi.T.")
Re: installing linux ignoring a swap partition ("Tauno Voipio")
Re: Default dir now /usr/bin? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: new user in linux(redhat7.0) ("Chris Coyle")
Re: new user in linux(redhat7.0) (Alumne FIB - MARC COLL CARRILLO)
Re: The death of MS Office? (Steve Lamb)
Debian 3 - ETP 0 (E Teflon Piano)
Re: Help! CDRecord - mp3-to-wav Conversion Problem! (Melinda and Davin)
Re: arg! deleted /dev/sr0! (William K Glunt)
Re: Setting up my own News Server (Michael Heiming)
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From: Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PDF Writer
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 09:10:12 -0500
Jon Rook wrote:
>
> Can anyone direct me to an editor that can output in PDF format. If
> that's not available, a utility that can translate a text or word
> processing file into PDF would also work. I've been looking all over
> with no luck thus far.
>
> Thanks,
> Jon
man ps2pdf ?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Doug Mitton)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Help! CDRecord - mp3-to-wav Conversion Problem!
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 14:11:36 GMT
Hello All;
I'm using some instructions I found in an earlier post to try to
convert some mp3's to wav and burn them to a CD using cdrecord. I
have come across a problem that was not addressed.
I convert the mp3 files to wave with:
splay -t 1000 -d - file.mp3 | sox -t raw -r 44100 -s -w -c 2 -
file.wav
I issue this command to burn the data:
cdrecord -v speed=4 dev=0,0,0 -audio *.wav
But, cdrecord responds with:
cdrecord: Bad audio track size 31707648 for track 01.
cdrecord: Audio tracks must be at least 705600 bytes and a multiple of
2352.
I can burn audio CD's normally if I get the data using the cdda2wav
utility.
Any pointer would be appreciated as to how I should change the size of
the resulting wav file, I didn't see an obvious switch in the splay or
sox commands.
Thanks in advance.
PS. I realize I can probably install some other utilities to do this
BUT this solution is supposed to work and until I understand what is
wrong here I'd like to try and make this approach work. Also, using
this method I can batch process files a lot easier.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Default dir now /usr/bin?
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 13:59:44 GMT
On Mon, 26 Mar 2001 16:39:46 GMT, "Darrell Rudmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Hello, I have been using RedHat 7 for about 2 weeks now and my default
>directory when downloading from Netscape or bringing up a terminal window
>HAD been my home directory and is now /usr/bin. How do I get it back to
>my home directory?
I think you need to provide a little more information. Have you
logged out since the problem started? What ID (I hope you haven't
been doing all your surfing as root). What does /etc/passwd show to
be your home directory. What directory is ~/ (or $HOME)?
Other than that, have you tried saving a file to your "real home"
directory and then exiting Netscape?
Gord
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From: Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: The death of MS Office?
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 09:23:21 -0500
MarkEllse wrote (in part):
>
> OK, so I finally gave in. I didn't want to employ MS Office in my company in
> the latest big IT expansion, but in the end I did do.
>
> I looked at all the alternatives. Ability Office is great. It looks just like
> MS Office. But it hasn't got tables, and crashes alarmingly. StarOffice is
> another near-clone. Yes, it has tables, it is file compatible with MS Office,
> but then there is this confounded 'desktop' thing that drives you mad. Forget
> Corel and Lotus: as soon as you examine them you realise that it will take
> hundreds, if not thousands, of staff hours to make the transition.
>
> Let's face it, we are all locked into MS Office by its universal presence.
Not all. I am not, though it is a continual struggle with those who
insist on sending me stuff in the non-standard formats that Microsoft
choose to use.
> It
> sets a standard which we are all used to.
It does not set a standard. Microsoft change the standards with every
release. The standards are secret, and secret standards are oxymoron.
Of course, Microsoft is run by a bunch of oxymorons. ;-)
> It may not have the best interface,
> but it has an adequate interface. Any competitor has to overcome the huge
> barrier of customer inertia.
>
> One day, there will be a true clone of MS Office.
I, personally, do not care if there will be or not. Frankly, I detest
its interface so much that I would not use it if it were available
tomorrow and for unlimited free licenses and it had no bugs. Microsoft
is just a shell corporation that markets the products of Sirius
Cybernetics Corporation.
"It is very easy to be blinded to the essential uselessness of [their
products] by the sense of achievement you get from getting them to
work at all.
"In other words -- and this is the rock-solid principle on which the
whole Corporation's Galaxywide success is founded -- their fundamental
design flaws are completely hidden by their superficial design flaws."
Douglas Adams knew of what he wrote.
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From: Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: real size of a file in a filesystem ...
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 09:24:47 -0500
peter pilsl wrote:
>
> My task is to divide myriads of files into subsets to burn them on a bunch
> of cdroms. For this I use mkisofs (to create a joliet-iso-filesystem) and
> I want to find a way to calculate the space a certain file or directory
> will take in the isofs later.
>
> I guess, the size I get reported from the system is not the size the file
> acutally needs on the media and then it will need some place in the
> directory-table and more.
>
> What I want now, is a fast method to estimate this 'real' size of a file
> as good as possible and on the other hand I would be interested in a deep-
> sight background of all this stuff. I read the filesystems-howto but didnt
> found the information I am looking for.
>
> thanx for any hints, links and informations,
>
Would the du (man du) command do what you need?
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From: "Hi.T." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Adding disk to raid0 w/reiserfs
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 14:25:00 GMT
I've been all over google and redhat.com in search of the answer, but I
can't find one.
Basically, I have a RAID0 md0 device on my system now with 2 disks. I want
to add a 3rd disk to it and probably a 4th, 5th and 6th later on down the
road. I can't figure out how to get Linux to add the disk without
destroying the data that's currently in the MD0. Also, I'm using reiserfs,
not ext2.
The problem I'm running into now is I've partitioned the new drive and added
it to /etc/raidtab. When the system boots, it's telling me that there is an
invalid suberblock for the new disk, obviously because I haven't run mkraid
on it as I fear the destruction of the current md0.
Incase anyone asks, no, it's not possible for me to move the data from the
md0 elsewhere while I nuke and recreate the md0 :)
I'm running Kernel 2.4.2 with all the latest patches and raid tools.
Any help would be appreciated.
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From: "Tauno Voipio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: installing linux ignoring a swap partition
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 14:27:36 GMT
"Massimiliano Caovilla" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hello
> I have a machine with 8Gb HD, with first 4Gb dedicated to a solaris
> partition: (type 82, a primary one). I want to install linux on the next
> 4Gb, but the installer of redhat 6.2 automatically set the solaris
> partition to swap space, due to the fact that both solaris and linux
> swap partitions appear to use id 82.
> I avoided the problem installing linux before than solaris, but now I
> have to reinstall linux and I was wondering how to tell it to ignore
> solaris' partition. Thanks
Do a 'text expert' installation. You can then select the partitions. It is
even possible to have a Linux swap partition without upsetting Solaris: make
an extended partition and create the swap partition as a logical disk.
Tauno Voipio
tauno voipio @ iki fi
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Default dir now /usr/bin?
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 14:30:44 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Mar 2001 16:39:46 GMT, "Darrell Rudmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>>Hello, I have been using RedHat 7 for about 2 weeks now and my default
>>directory when downloading from Netscape or bringing up a terminal window
>>HAD been my home directory and is now /usr/bin. How do I get it back to
>>my home directory?
> I think you need to provide a little more information. Have you
> logged out since the problem started? What ID (I hope you haven't
> been doing all your surfing as root). What does /etc/passwd show to
> be your home directory. What directory is ~/ (or $HOME)?
> Other than that, have you tried saving a file to your "real home"
> directory and then exiting Netscape?
> Gord
Also, when you start up netscape, what directory are you in?
Adam
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From: "Chris Coyle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: new user in linux(redhat7.0)
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 09:34:12 -0500
"arasu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi,
>
> In linux, Redhat version 7.) I deleted the user name say groove.
> Then I recreated the user in the same name. When I login
> as groove, I could not get gnome desktop menu, instead I get
> the following message.
>
> "The directory /tmp/orbit-groove is not owned by the current
> user, groove. Please correct the ownership of this directory."
>
> Can any one suggest how to go about it now. thanks.
>
> -arasu
>
arasu,
I think you can just remove it.
gnome will recreate it if/when it is needed.
You probably need to be root to remove it.
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From: Alumne FIB - MARC COLL CARRILLO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: new user in linux(redhat7.0)
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 16:35:58 +0200
Try to log in as root and delete that file (but make a backup before)
arasu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In linux, Redhat version 7.) I deleted the user name say groove.
> Then I recreated the user in the same name. When I login
> as groove, I could not get gnome desktop menu, instead I get
> the following message.
>
> "The directory /tmp/orbit-groove is not owned by the current
> user, groove. Please correct the ownership of this directory."
>
> Can any one suggest how to go about it now. thanks.
>
> -arasu
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Lamb)
Subject: Re: The death of MS Office?
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 14:45:48 -0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 26 Mar 2001 21:03:16 -0700, Steve Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>How do you turn it off?
View / Integrated Desktop. It still looks the same except it doesn't take
over the whole screen, it is just a windowed app at that point.
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ICQ: 5107343 | main connection to the switchboard of souls.
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From: E Teflon Piano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.religion.kibology,linux.debian.user
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Debian 3 - ETP 0
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 10:00:27 -0500
Because of the fun wacky way Debian Linux installs and fails to conform
to its own scanty documentation, I've had to install it three times.
I'm getting good at it.
As I was going through the third installation, I had the insight that
Nethack is really an aptitude test for being a Linux Administrator. If
you've never played Nethack, basically it's a maze game in which you
must gather tokens and by interacting with the tokens and other avatars
in the game, figure out what each token actually does and how it will
help or hinder you in your quest to finish the game. If you, as a user,
are good a nethack, you'll be wizard at Linux installation. I keep
getting killed by newts.
This is how Linux works, too. The manual pages clearly are written by
some guys who, with some other guys, fully discussed what they wanted a
piece of software to do. The man pages are the result of those
conversations only in the sense that they document all the things they
forgot to talk about, but wanted to note for each other for later.
The Debian Linux installation program works a lot like nethack. You are
given the opportunity to install software without knowing where all its
little pieces are going to go or how they're going to affect your
startup. Like for nethack, there's a spoiler sheet. It's called
"Installing Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 For Intel x86", but it's a general
walkthrough, and doesn't dwell on specifics of the installation
dialogues. You get cryptic little offers like "...setting up modem"
"configure recilS sineP" ?
which defaults to "Y", without telling you what it's for.
The first installation: buggered because PCMCIA modem and PCMCIA
network card weren't inserted at installation time. I thought it would
make installation *less complicated*, and I would be able to install
and configure the cards later. Ultimately, I couldn't figger out where
the instructions to do so were hidden. I did happen upon a document
called "Linux Rute Tutorial", which disclosed the raw commands for
setting up interfaces. But the results I was told to expect from the
tutorial text and the actual results I got (and were correct! But
didn't look right) didn't jibe.
Second Installation: Undertaken with the cards in place. They were
detected and mysterious things happened. One of them was with the modem
setup. The installer said it wanted to use /dev/modem. "OK," I said.
"That sounds reasonable." Then it asked if I wanted to make an inittab
entry. "Sure, go ahead," I said. "You seem to know what you're doing."
"Use /sbin/getty?" the installer asked with forced casualness.
"OK," I replied.
"HA! Got you," said the installer. Suddenly we were playing Simon says.
The installation was buggered because there's sposed to be some
arguments to /sbin/getty. (I *think* the installer was asking me if I
wanted to make the modem available on a dialup terminal. Reading the
manual pages for getty wasn't very helpful in this regard. It specified
what all the possible options were, but didn't say *why* you might want
to do this.) Without the arguments, the init program kept trying to
execute a /sbin/getty command at bootup time. It failed in an infinite
loop, of course; no arguments for the getty command. After 10 failures
in about a second, it said it *knew* there was *something* wrong, it
was shutting off the command for five minutes. Every five minutes the
cycle would repeat. Try reading a man page when in the middle you get a
screen full of gibberish about the proper usage of getty. You can't.
"All right, goddammit," I shouted at init, "I'll show *you*!" I
hand-edited the inittab file and commented out all the getty commands.
The init program only snickered. It turns out I had removed all the
virtual consoles. Once I rebooted, I couldn't login. But init *still*
said there was an infinite loop somewhere. HAW HAW HAW.
INSTALLATION THREE: I evaded all the traps. I installed with all the
cards. The networking works. The modem works -- but! The system won't
recognize the modem card unless it is removed and inserted after boot
time. I spose this has something to do with the lack of an inittab
entry, but buggered if I can find out for sure. And I'm only on Dungeon
Level *FIVE!* With no comestibles, no wands, a cursed spellbook of
Linux Administration and a cat that keeps dragging in irate shopkeepers
demanding I pay for killing and eating an inittab that was picking my
pocket.
Ok, Linux Debian is free software, and it's maintained by volunteers,
many of them writing English instructions in what is obviously their
second (or third) language, so I can't blame anybody. But Linux
Advocacy would be advanced a quantum mechanic's leap by just a wee bit
more verbosity in the installer program. Don't wave the bandwidth stick
at me about this. Bandwidth is too cheap to meter, especially with the
man pages for perl running six times the size of the actual program.
Every person who is defeated by Linux installers, or cryptic,
incomplete (or just plain wrong) documentation is another negative
voice in the corner of the corporate decision-making process when it
comes time to re-evaluate Windows in favor of switching to Linux.
All you guys who bought Red Hat stock at the top take note. If you want
to get your money back out of that investment, you better haunt the
newsgroups. And say something more helpful than "Read the HOWTO."
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Internet 'Lectronic Legal Society. Teflon is a mark owned by duPont. E is E
poly(TFE) Piano Enterprises' [dibs] for ironic hyperbole and elitist satire.
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From: Melinda and Davin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Help! CDRecord - mp3-to-wav Conversion Problem!
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 08:09:48 -0700
Another option is to use the wave output option on xmms.
You can load your playlist and dump all output to files.
Davin Carter
Doug Mitton wrote:
Hello All;
>
> I'm using some instructions I found in an earlier post to try to
> convert some mp3's to wav and burn them to a CD using cdrecord. I
> have come across a problem that was not addressed.
>
> I convert the mp3 files to wave with:
> splay -t 1000 -d - file.mp3 | sox -t raw -r 44100 -s -w -c 2 -
> file.wav
>
> I issue this command to burn the data:
> cdrecord -v speed=4 dev=0,0,0 -audio *.wav
>
> But, cdrecord responds with:
> cdrecord: Bad audio track size 31707648 for track 01.
> cdrecord: Audio tracks must be at least 705600 bytes and a multiple of
> 2352.
>
> I can burn audio CD's normally if I get the data using the cdda2wav
> utility.
>
> Any pointer would be appreciated as to how I should change the size of
> the resulting wav file, I didn't see an obvious switch in the splay or
> sox commands.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> PS. I realize I can probably install some other utilities to do this
> BUT this solution is supposed to work and until I understand what is
> wrong here I'd like to try and make this approach work. Also, using
> this method I can batch process files a lot easier.
> ------------------------------------------------
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>
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> Remove the "x." from my domain to reply!
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From: William K Glunt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: arg! deleted /dev/sr0!
Date: 27 Mar 2001 15:07:35 GMT
Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: There's no luck involved in mknod.
: /sbin/mknod /dev/sr0 b 11 0
Now that's interesting....I could have sworn that I did exactly that and
it was no help, but after your post I did it again and all is well.
Perhaps I got the arguments in the wrong order....or maybe went
temporarily insane or something... :-)
Anyway, many thanks!
: Eric
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Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 17:09:15 +0200
From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Setting up my own News Server
Rodger Dusatko wrote:
>
> 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.
Hope I understood what you mean now...?
I would suggest better setting up some mailing list(s) with something like
majordomo,
you can moderate it, if you want and you know who suscribes.
Michael Heiming
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