Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Ubuntu on fit-pc from scratch

2008-12-30 Thread Robin Bowes
Pat Farrell wrote: adriatic wrote: Do you think I can run SqueezeCenter on a barebone (diskless) 256MB RAM Linux Fit-PC from a thumb drive (8GB) I don't know, but I would expect that you have too little RAM. Since RAM is nearly free, can you bump it? With a gig, I'd guess it might just

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] New Squeezeserver...XP or Linux

2008-08-03 Thread Robin Bowes
Pat Farrell wrote: tyler_durden wrote: I was referring to supporting plug-in USB external HDDs. Oh, sneaker net. There are times when sneakernet makes sense. Even over 100baseT, copying a 500GB disk takes a long time. Hell, even over GB, copying a 500GB takes a long time! R.

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Fedora 9...

2008-06-17 Thread Robin Bowes
gharris999 wrote: Personally, I'm running into some problems with Fedora 9. Without really extensive testing, I'm kind of going out on a limb here, but you might find Fedora 8 a more stable platform for running SqueezeCenter at this point. One of the things I'm seeing is that I'm having

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] SqueezeCenter 7.0.1 not working on Arch Linux

2008-05-31 Thread Robin Bowes
jared1999 wrote: I have run the build-perl-modules.pl script and that was sufficient before. Is it obvious what's wrong? If not, where should I start looking? I don't believe perl 5.10 is supported in 7.0.1. Try 7.1. R. ___ unix mailing list

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Ubuntu 8.04, SC7.01 and MusicMap

2008-05-30 Thread Robin Bowes
Mark Lanctot wrote: Check permissions. Search this forum, but I think the command is sudo chmod -R 755 at a command prompt when you're at the top of the directory. It's actually better to use: chmod -R u+rwX,g+rX,o+rX /path/to/top-level/dir The X adds the list dorectory permission

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] slimserver freebsd error - Couldn't find a valid SlimServer path. Exiting.

2008-05-22 Thread Robin Bowes
sgunn wrote: I just sent email to the port maintainer, so hopefully he will be able to fix the json library issue the next time he updates the port. As I said in an earlier reply, squeezecenter has been modified to work with *either* version of the json library, so all that's required is that

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] slimserver freebsd error - Couldn't find a valid SlimServer path. Exiting.

2008-05-22 Thread Robin Bowes
sgunn wrote: If you use the port, you can't. You need to wait for the port to be upgraded to 7.1. No, the change went into 7.0/trunk so it should make it into 7.0.x releases, if it hasn't done so already. These are the changes: http://svn.slimdevices.com/viewvc.cgi?view=revrevision=18527

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] slimserver freebsd error - Couldn't find a valid SlimServer path. Exiting.

2008-05-22 Thread Robin Bowes
Robin Bowes wrote: sgunn wrote: If you use the port, you can't. You need to wait for the port to be upgraded to 7.1. No, the change went into 7.0/trunk so it should make it into 7.0.x releases, if it hasn't done so already. Just to be clear: http://svn.slimdevices.com/viewvc.cgi/7.0

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] slimserver freebsd error - Couldn't find a valid SlimServer path. Exiting.

2008-05-22 Thread Robin Bowes
sgunn wrote: I don't mean this as a baiting question even though it may sound like it, but do you use FreeBSD? I don't currently use FreeBSD, but I ran mail servers on it in 1997-98. Ports in FreeBSD has a very specific meaning. Yes, I am aware of that. The FreeBSD squeezecenter port is

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] slimserver freebsd error - Couldn't find a valid SlimServer path. Exiting.

2008-05-20 Thread Robin Bowes
sgunn wrote: I just finished installing squeezecenter 7.0.0_3 from ports (/usr/ports/audio/squeezecenter), and in order to get it to install cleanly I had to upgrade my server to FreeBSD 6.3 from 6.0. I also had to change references to decode_json and encode_json to from_json and to_json,

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Rubyripper abandoned, any replacement?

2008-05-06 Thread Robin Bowes
Mark Lanctot wrote: Upgrading my test machine to Ubuntu 8.04 the other day has prompted me to look for a replacement since I can't get Rubyripper to run on it. Rather than waste time trying to get it working, is there a replacement with all those features or should I give in and run EAC

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Best Linux program for Ripping CDs to FLAC

2008-05-05 Thread Robin Bowes
petros wrote: Arch Hokie 06;298310 Wrote: However, EAC seems to be spotty at best under WINE. I was able to get it running near perfectly once, only to have it crash every time I try to rip a cd now. As a side note, I am running Ubuntu 8.04. Thanks! I don't know what version of

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Install error: failed dependencies

2008-05-05 Thread Robin Bowes
Pat Farrell wrote: RPM dependency hell is what drove me from Fedora to Mandriva. Their urpmi was much nicer than pure 'rpm' But these days, I don't recommend Mandriva for SqueezeCenter. They seem to have moved into a more desktop world that makes installing SqueezeCenter harder than it

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Perl 5.10 and Squeezecenter

2008-04-28 Thread Robin Bowes
Xhorder wrote: make: *** No rule to make target `/usr/lib/perl5/5.10.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/CORE/EXTERN.h', needed by `Zlib.o'. Stop. Uh oh, perl 5.10.x ... I don't think SC works with perl 5.10 yet. R. ___ unix mailing list

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] How Do I Restart Slimserver On Ubuntu 7.10

2008-04-24 Thread Robin Bowes
Pat Farrell wrote: I have no clue why they have the 'sudo' culture. This is veering wildly off-topic, but what's wrong with sudo? Works perfectly well for me, and I don't even use Ubuntu! R. ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] How Do I Restart Slimserver On Ubuntu 7.10

2008-04-24 Thread Robin Bowes
Pat Farrell wrote: aubuti wrote: Ubuntu *has* taken sudo to a new extreme, which isn't really necessary, Agree, but I'm not in charge of Ubuntu :-) I'm sure its a crutch for Windoze folks, but I don't like extremes. Well, I've not seen what Ubuntu does, but I find sudo v. useful for

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] How Do I Restart Slimserver On Ubuntu 7.10

2008-04-24 Thread Robin Bowes
Pat Farrell wrote: Robin Bowes wrote: Well, I've not seen what Ubuntu does, but I find sudo v. useful for giving access to specific commands for certain users. Multiple users? What's that? I have 15, maybe 20 computers in my house, if you don't count things like the Controller, which

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] How Do I Restart Slimserver On Ubuntu 7.10

2008-04-24 Thread Robin Bowes
Diana Artemis wrote: Robin Bowes wrote: This is veering wildly off-topic, but what's wrong with sudo? Works perfectly well for me, and I don't even use Ubuntu! Isn't one of the advantages of sudo that it is temporary - it logs you back out of root privileges automatically after

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Slimcenter 7.0 on Ubuntu 8.04 - apparmor issues

2008-04-21 Thread Robin Bowes
dsdreamer wrote: Hi, I thought I would check out Ubuntu (haven't played with Linux for a long time) and decided to try out the release candidate of Ubuntu 8.04 with the stable, released Slimcenter 7.0. All went well except for one thing: apparmor (a kernel enhancement to confine programs

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Uninstalling RPM Slimserver

2008-04-10 Thread Robin Bowes
Jim Flanagan wrote: Here are the errors reported when trying to uninstall slimserver from yast. --- --- 2008-04-09 22:34:50 slimserver-6.5.4-1.noarch remove failed rpm output: slimserver: unknown service error: %preun(slimserver-6.5.4-1.noarch) scriptlet failed, exit

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Doesn't start on Centos 5 :(

2008-04-09 Thread Robin Bowes
vincen wrote: Hi, I just installed on my server Centos 5 and downloaded Squeezecenter latest version 7.0.1 and installed it (I had to use --nodeps as it complained about mysqld_safe that doesn't exist on that distro !). The reason it complains about msqld_safe is that the SC RPM uses the

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] SqueezeCenter 7.0/Slackware 11.0 - Can't install GD!

2008-04-07 Thread Robin Bowes
Harry Bo wrote: Hi all, I setup a Slackware 11.0 box with SS 6.5.0 for a friend of mine last year. Now he'd like me to upgrade it to 7.0. Fine, I said, thinking that this would be fairly easy. I've done it myself very recently on Slackware 12.0, with no significant problems. After over 2

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Survey: does your *nix distro have /usr/bin/env?

2008-04-06 Thread Robin Bowes
dsf wrote: there's a nice page about #! in general, including tests from a range of *nix environments and some comments on the location of env here: http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/various/shebang/ Thanks. An interesting bit of research. To summarise, it looks like #!/usr/bin/env perl won't

[SlimDevices: Unix] Survey: does your *nix distro have /usr/bin/env ?

2008-04-05 Thread Robin Bowes
Hi all, I am proposing that the shebang path in slimserver.pl is changed. Currently it is: #!/usr/bin/perl -w I am proposing this is changed to: #!/usr/bin/env perl This is more portable, i.e. it doesn't reply on perl being in /usr - it will use whichever version of perl is

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Survey: does your *nix distro have /usr/bin/env?

2008-04-05 Thread Robin Bowes
Ramage wrote: Clarke Connect 4.1 = /bin/env and symlink from /usr/bin to /bin/env Yes, this is normal. In fact, most Redhat-derived distros have /bin/env with /usr/bin/env as a soft-link, including the ones I listed in my first post in this thread. The important thing is that /usr/bin/env

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Survey: does your *nix distro have /usr/bin/env?

2008-04-05 Thread Robin Bowes
blazerte wrote: All Debians since ... at least 2001? Yes, wouldn't surprise me. I'm not actually expecting to find any distros that *don't* have /usr/bin/env - this is a confirmation exercise designed to convince Andy that this change is OK :) R.

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Survey: does your *nix distro have /usr/bin/env?

2008-04-05 Thread Robin Bowes
blazerte wrote: but... Is /usr/bin/env more universal than /usr/bin/perl ? That is the purpose of this survey. If, as I expect, we don't find a platform that doesn't have /usr/bin/env then we can say that /usr/bin/env is indeed more universal than /usr/bin/perl I'm only familiar than

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Survey: does your *nix distro have /usr/bin/env?

2008-04-05 Thread Robin Bowes
blazerte wrote: Here's a quote from the Debian Python packaging manual: If a maintainer would like to provide the user with the possibility to override the Debian Python interpreter, he may want to use /usr/bin/env python or /usr/bin/env pythonX.Y. However this is not advisable as it

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Survey: does your *nix distro have /usr/bin/env?

2008-04-05 Thread Robin Bowes
flipflip wrote: Isn't /usr/bin/perl *the* location for Perl? It's certainly the *common* location for perl, but not the *only* location. FreeBSD has perl in /usr/local/bin, albeit with a symlink to /usr/bin. I'm not sure why, but I have only seen the env trick rarely in the wild. I use it

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] noob question

2008-04-04 Thread Robin Bowes
haunyack wrote: ok... [EMAIL PROTECTED] MusicMagicMixer]# ./MusicMagicMixer JAVA_HOME is not set. ./MusicMagicMixer cannot start. What now? So, you need to install Java (if you haven't done so already). R. ___ unix mailing list

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Slimserver fails over

2008-04-01 Thread Robin Bowes
thevoiceofalan wrote: Hi My Slimserver fails over (stops) randomly it seems. Everything is fine for around 5 - 10 hours then it is no longer working the web browser part times out and doing ps -aux | grep slim reveals it is still running. Any ideas? Look in the log file R.

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Slimserver fails over

2008-04-01 Thread Robin Bowes
thevoiceofalan wrote: Wheres the log for ss? What platform are you on? How did you install SS? R. ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] 7.0 install orphaned my music collection

2008-03-18 Thread Robin Bowes
DaveBrennan wrote: Having been around Unix/Linux since it was born there are some things that product installs should never do without telling the system administrator. When 7.0 installed it deleted the slimserver user from my box, as all my music files are owned by slimserver and the samba

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] The install.txt file is totally wrong

2008-03-09 Thread Robin Bowes
jarome wrote: Please add in the wiki that setting http://repos.slimdevices.com/yum/squeezecenter/release/repodata as an rpm-md channel works in smart. It's a wiki - you can add it. R. ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] SlimServer RPM install fails to start on RHEL4

2008-03-02 Thread Robin Bowes
JohnCoker wrote: I'm not willing to use force (as who knows what that would screw up). When I do the command without force, it says the library is up to date. All force does is to make CPAN install the latest version of the module even if it detects that it is already installed. It's nothing

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Problems using flac2mp3

2008-02-22 Thread Robin Bowes
OiPenguin wrote: Robin Bowes;271760 Wrote: It sounds like you have file/permissions issues rather than this being a flac2mp3 problem. R. All files and folders are read/write/execute. Group:owner should be users:users. Is this inappropriate? Your original post was trying to read

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Problems using flac2mp3

2008-02-22 Thread Robin Bowes
OiPenguin wrote: I'm running Ubuntu 7.10 server edition. I've instructed your script to run in a specific directory (/home/felles/rippet) so I don't understand why a file in .Trash-lars becomes an issues. Furthermore, I can't find a folder named .Trash-lars nor the above file in any other

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Problems using flac2mp3

2008-02-22 Thread Robin Bowes
OiPenguin wrote: Robin Bowes;271873 Wrote: The path indicates that .Trash-lars is in /home/felles/rippet Try this: ls -al /home/felles/rippet I suspect you'll see the .Trash-lars folder. R. I'm afraid not! Do you have a quick fix? We're going on holiday tomorrow morning

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Problems using flac2mp3

2008-02-22 Thread Robin Bowes
OiPenguin wrote: There is no .Trash-lars, no other trash folder nor any other hidden folder within /home/felles/Media/Musikk/Rippet I've tried executing your perl script once again and have reposted the output below. Code:

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Problems using flac2mp3

2008-02-22 Thread Robin Bowes
OiPenguin wrote: The result is an error at the same place as previously. Code: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ /bin/flac2mp3-0.3.0rc1/flac2mp3.pl /home/felles/Media/Musikk/Rippet /home/felles/Media/Flac_som_MP3 Using flac from: /usr/bin/flac Using lame from:

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Problems using flac2mp3

2008-02-21 Thread Robin Bowes
OiPenguin wrote: I've tried to convert flacs to MP3s with flac2mp3, but I keep getting an error which I don't understand. Can anyone help? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/bin/flac2mp3-0.3.0rc1$ /bin/flac2mp3-0.3.0rc1/flac2mp3.pl /home/felles/Media/Musikk/Rippet /home/felles/Media/Flac_som_MP3 Using

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Problems using flac2mp3

2008-02-21 Thread Robin Bowes
It sounds like you have file/permissions issues rather than this being a flac2mp3 problem. R. ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] anyone know how to chmod -R ?

2008-02-05 Thread Robin Bowes
Linzer wrote: Robin Bowes;265437 Wrote: killick wrote: Sorry folks. I've found my mistake. chmod -R 777 /media/disk/audiophiles does work. You really don't need to do that - you'd be better off getting to the bottom of your permissions issues and sorting out properly. Failing

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] anyone know how to chmod -R ?

2008-02-04 Thread Robin Bowes
killick wrote: Sorry folks. I've found my mistake. chmod -R 777 /media/disk/audiophiles does work. You really don't need to do that - you'd be better off getting to the bottom of your permissions issues and sorting out properly. Failing that, you don't need 777 permissions on everything.

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Which Linux distro?

2008-01-25 Thread Robin Bowes
cliveb wrote: I see that Slim Devices offers pre-built Red Hat and Debian packages for download. Is there a list anywhere that explains which distros these packages can be used with? Redhat RPM packages can be installed on distros like Fedora, CentOS, etc. R.

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] OpenSolaris or Nexenta and ZFS?

2008-01-23 Thread Robin Bowes
chrol wrote: Is anyone else out there running on an OpenSolaris derivative? I am running squeezecenter on a Nexenta box with 4 disks and ZFS in RAIDZ and it is working quite well - only problem is disk spindown timer which I haven't been able to configure - it is slightly too short

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] New HDD - which file system?

2008-01-18 Thread Robin Bowes
Timothy Stockman wrote: I've been researching this very question (which file system), as I will be adding a 1TB drive to the new linux system which should arrive any day now. So far, I'm leaning to ext3 with the following tweaks: 1. Inode size 256 bytes (for easy migration to ext4) 2. Less

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] help with install on linkstation

2008-01-17 Thread Robin Bowes
bvis wrote: I have a Buffalo HD-HG400LAN that I would like to run slimserver on. I don't have any Linux knowledge to do the installation myself. Is there any self install software available for this or is there anyone willing to install it for me for a fee? I have done several installs on

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Slimserver install in Mandriva 2008.0 problem

2008-01-14 Thread Robin Bowes
HaroldD wrote: cpan install Scalar::Util CPAN: Storable loaded ok Going to read /root/.cpan/Metadata Database was generated on Sat, 12 Jan 2008 22:37:46 GMT Scalar::Util is up to date. Still same error on starting slimserver. Thanks in advance for any help. Try this: cpan force

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: Gentoo official ebuild for SqueezeCenter 7 beta nightlies

2008-01-07 Thread Robin Bowes
Stuart Hickinbottom wrote: If you could provide feedback in this thread that would be useful. With a little help from Stuart, I have successfully installed this on my Kurobox HG (ppc platform). I think the only couple of nits I ran into was I had to manually emerge sudo and also add this

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Problems installing squeezecenter on gentoo

2008-01-07 Thread Robin Bowes
ninjabase wrote: Hi all, The purpose is to upgrade an existing installation of slimserver (6.5.4) to squeezecenter (7.0) on a gentoo computer. I downloaded and extracted the tarball to /opt/squeezebox [snip] Any clues? Why not try using the new ebuild? It worked for me on the ppc

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] ANNOUNCE: Gentoo official ebuild forSqueezeCenter 7 beta nightlies

2008-01-07 Thread Robin Bowes
LavaJoe wrote: Have you tried it with the one in portage Yes... (and without adding that line to /etc/portage/package.use)? ...No! I'll unmerge and try again when I get chance. sudo is a dep now, and the mysql keyword is no longer used - just want to make sure you are not still hitting

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Reliable mobo for linux only server

2007-12-24 Thread Robin Bowes
egd wrote: Pat Farrell;251215 Wrote: I've never heard of MB based RAID being a solution if you are serious about reliability. When I want real RAID, I get a hardware RAID controller. They are not that expensive. No, but software raid is just as good for this application. Forget MB-based

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] SE Linux stops slimserver running on Fedora 8

2007-12-19 Thread Robin Bowes
clive1000 wrote: Hi Good call. I un-installed slimserver and the msg relating to stopping slimserver had of course gone away but there remaind the SE Linux msg in my last post. I first of all tried to install slimserver wit SE Linux enforcing (having missed the wiki instructions) which

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] SE Linux stops slimserver running on Fedora 8

2007-12-18 Thread Robin Bowes
Clive, clive1000 wrote: SELinux is preventing gdm-binary (xdm_t) getattr to /boot (boot_t).Detailed DescriptionSELinux denied access requested by gdm-binary. It is not expected that this access is required by gdm-binary and this access may signal an intrusion attempt. It is also possible

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Any XSF gurus ??

2007-10-18 Thread Robin Bowes
DLloyd wrote: Next, it's time to build my kernel (attempt number four) No, why are you building a kernel? Do you enjoy this sort of thing? Pick a distro that Just Works(tm). I am v. familiar with Fedora/CentOS so can recommend either/both of those. No kernel builds required. R.

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Any XSF gurus ??

2007-10-16 Thread Robin Bowes
DLloyd wrote: Thanks Robin ! I'll give that a try PS. For XSF, chunk=1024 ? I don't know, I don't use XFS. R. ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Any XSF gurus ??

2007-10-15 Thread Robin Bowes
DLloyd wrote: Robin, I have: /dev/sda1 (boot partition) /dev/sdb1 (swap) /dev/sdc1 (swap) Using fdisk, which partition type should I create for the MD device on /dev/sda.../dev/sdc please ? (primary or extended ?) Make it a primary (doesn't really matter) and label it fd (Linux Raid

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Anyone know how to reinstall NX server?

2007-10-10 Thread Robin Bowes
Ashy72 wrote: The problem is with this User: nx how to remove it? man userdel R. ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Linux advice needed please !!

2007-10-10 Thread Robin Bowes
DLloyd wrote: So, two weeks after ordering it, the PC arrives. I assembled the hardware a few days ago and have been trying to get Debian running ever since This is where the mate who knows linux and works for beer comes in... Firstly, I stand corrected. The Intel ICH7R chipset does

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Fedora 7

2007-08-19 Thread Robin Bowes
BlackWidower wrote: I recently installed SlimServer on Fedora 7 and I have a major problem. I can't turn it on! I have tried 'service slimserver start' but the 'service' command don't exist, and I have tried 'slimserver.pl --daemon' but SE Linux blocks it even after I opened port 9000, which

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Fedora 7

2007-08-19 Thread Robin Bowes
Fletch wrote: BlackWidower;221556 Wrote: I have tried 'service slimserver start' but the 'service' command don't exist /sbin is probably not in your path. Try: /sbin/service slimserver start If service is not in your path, you are probably trying to run it as non-root user. Try logging

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] lt-faad process continues to run when going to next track

2007-08-09 Thread Robin Bowes
livelock wrote: Hi, I am running slimserver on my freelinked Linkstation Pro. I use mplayer for playing my itunes on SB3. I configrued it according to: http://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.cgi?AppleLosslessUnix It works, but if I go to the next track the old lt-faad process seems to continue

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] How to apply a patch to squeezeslave?

2007-08-09 Thread Robin Bowes
mflint wrote: Of course, if the person issuing the patch was granted check-in rights in subversion...! ;-) Or if someone with check-in rights grabbed the patch, applied it, and checked it in... ;) R. PS. Look for svn r12523. ___ unix mailing list

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] SB connect probs w/ FC7

2007-07-22 Thread Robin Bowes
mikeruss wrote: Have you tried disabling selinux? vi etc/selinux/config # This file controls the state of SELinux on the system. # SELINUX= can take one of these three values: # enforcing - SELinux security policy is enforced. # permissive - SELinux prints warnings instead

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Redhat Enterprise Linux 5 WS

2007-07-17 Thread Robin Bowes
plafitracer wrote: I got tired of messing around with ClarkConnect, Kubuntu and other free Linux packages - life is just too short... Either one thing doesn't work or the other, or I just cant' figure out how to do it :) So I bit the apple, bought a new pc and Redhat Enterprise Linux 5

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Group acces not sufficient?

2007-07-14 Thread Robin Bowes
bogomipz wrote: Hi all, I run Slimserver 6.5.2 on Linux. All my music is stored under my personal account, while the server runs as user slimserver. Both are in group users. I guess this is a quite common setup. I'd wager that your home dir has perms drwx-- i.e. it is only readable by

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Script to easily change slimserver libraries?

2007-07-06 Thread Robin Bowes
gharris999 wrote: Is there a way to make 'patch' forgiving about the change from lines? Or can anyone suggest an alternative approach (short of any actual perl script) here? Perhaps I ought to be using some combination of echo, cat, grep magic to produce the appropriate patch file on the

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Script to easily change slimserver libraries?

2007-07-06 Thread Robin Bowes
gharris999 wrote: Robin: you are undermining my determination to avoid at all costs learning anything about perl. Now you've got me thinking about how to do this in a plug-in. Do you suppose it's possible? would a call to fork(service slimserver restart); work inside a plugin? Probably not

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] WakeOnLan and various LAN adapters-INFO only

2007-06-29 Thread Robin Bowes
oreillymj wrote: For almost every OS I've ever worked on, it is considered optimal for the page/swap file to be 1.5 times physical memory. So with 2Gb of RAM, your swap file should be 3Gb. I've always used swap = 2 x physical RAM So, with 2GB of RAM I'd use 4GB of swap. R.

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Distro Choice

2007-06-27 Thread Robin Bowes
Pale Blue Ego wrote: Another vote for ClarkConnect. I use it for a Slimserver/file server and it's perfect for that. Runs quicker than any other Linux distro I've tried because it doesn't use a GUI. Just administer it from any other PC on the network using a web interface much like

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Install On Fedora

2007-06-12 Thread Robin Bowes
broth420 wrote: this is incredibly frustrating. If I store my files in my /home/username/music directory, what do I enter in the music folder settings in slimserver? Funnily enough, you would enter /home/username/music. However, permissions on that directory will prevent slimserver from

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Install On Fedora

2007-06-12 Thread Robin Bowes
broth420 wrote: Thank you so very much. I think it is funny I had it right (kind of). I thought that was what I needed to enter, but it kept saying opps ... because slimserver doesn't have the permissions to read /home/username R. ___ unix

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] CC - Change Root Password via WinSCP?

2007-05-20 Thread Robin Bowes
w4rren wrote: Thanks for the reply. After advise on the CC board, I adjusted the 'etc\shadow' file, which has now locked me out with WinSCP as well, so I'm guessing PuTTY is now a non-starter... I think I need the pratice with Linux/CC, so I guess a re-install is close. Just got to make

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Recreating music drive with rsync: how can I be sure?

2007-05-14 Thread Robin Bowes
jth wrote: it may give you peace of mind to run this script. I wrote it a while back to compare the contents of two directories and their subdirectories. Interesting script, but diff -r will do something similar. R. ___ unix mailing list

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Latest firmware for sb2

2007-05-08 Thread Robin Bowes
slim_maikel wrote: Thanks for your replies so far: The s/n: 203475E both wifi/ethernet. I bought it as a sb2 and still believe it is one. As bpa said earlier, what does the label on the bottom show? I'll bet dollars to doughnuts you've got an SB1. R.

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] No SlimServer User Folder

2007-04-29 Thread Robin Bowes
Michael Herger wrote: but, if I had to do this the correct way, how would I add SlimServer to my group mediabox? usermod -G mediabox,othergroups,here slimserver See man usermod for details (make sure you put _all_ groups you need in that command as the user otherwise is removed from

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] New FLAC versions in Linux?

2007-04-27 Thread Robin Bowes
Mark Lanctot wrote: Robin Bowes;197807 Wrote: If you want to put the new version somewhere else, just run make uninstall from the flac-1.1.4 dir, then run make clean and re-run the install from ./configure ... using the appropriate locations. R. No worries. As I indicated, it's working

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] New FLAC versions in Linux?

2007-04-27 Thread Robin Bowes
koen wrote: Robin Bowes;197878 Wrote: Mark Lanctot wrote:[color=blue] I think over-writing the official files is a safer way to do it - you can be sure that you've only one version of the flac binary on your system and won't end up running the wrong one. R. Why not do it the debian

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] New FLAC versions in Linux?

2007-04-27 Thread Robin Bowes
Robin Bowes wrote: koen wrote: Robin Bowes;197878 Wrote: Mark Lanctot wrote:[color=blue] I think over-writing the official files is a safer way to do it - you can be sure that you've only one version of the flac binary on your system and won't end up running the wrong one. R. Why

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] n5200 SS implementation

2007-04-27 Thread Robin Bowes
essele wrote: (2) I have turned off AutoCommit in the Schema.pm module, I don't like doing this since I don't fully understand the implications, but it seems to work ok and resolves a commit not valid with autocommit is on type error. This is a knee-jerk reaction to that (I've not thought

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] New FLAC versions in Linux?

2007-04-26 Thread Robin Bowes
Mark Lanctot wrote: One of the minor annoyances I've had regarding the switch to Linux is the older FLAC versions that are out there. Debian/Ubuntu is stuck at 1.1.2, so I'm missing out on the compression improvements in 1.1.3 and the dramatic encoding speed increase in 1.1.4. Use the source

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] New FLAC versions in Linux?

2007-04-26 Thread Robin Bowes
Ben Sandee wrote: If you choose to take Robin's advice and compile your own, make sure that you set the install prefix to /usr/local rather than normal default of /usr (this is package dependent, I don't know what the flac defaults are). This will ensure that you don't blow away the Debian

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] New FLAC versions in Linux?

2007-04-26 Thread Robin Bowes
Mark Lanctot wrote: Ben Sandee;197773 Wrote: If you choose to take Robin's advice and compile your own, make sure that you set the install prefix to /usr/local rather than normal default of /usr (this is package dependent, I don't know what the flac defaults are). This will ensure that

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Issues on Centos/RHEL 4

2007-04-25 Thread Robin Bowes
Rutt wrote: Trying to run 6.5.1 on Centos 4 (== Red Hat Enterprise 4) and there seems to be some sort of security issue. I've appended something pretty fishy from /var/log/messages. Any clues? Thanks. Apr 25 10:06:13 ld-8 slimserver: slimserver.pl startup succeeded Apr 25 10:06:14 ld-8

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Migration from Windows - Ubuntu full-time, SlimServer-oriented programs?

2007-04-19 Thread Robin Bowes
Mark Lanctot wrote: Robin Bowes;195923 Wrote: Hard drives are plenty fast enough for *all* slimserver-related purposes. What are you doing that requires more speed? It's primarily a general-purpose desktop and not a dedicated SlimServer machine. Even so, modern hard drives are more than

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Migration from Windows - Ubuntu full-time, SlimServer-oriented programs?

2007-04-19 Thread Robin Bowes
jeffmeh wrote: Robin Bowes;195929 Wrote: One of these days, I'll build in functionality to copy the flac ReplayGain tags into equivalent mp3 tags. Interesting idea Would the FLAC replaygain adjustment values be correct for the mp3 files in all cases? I would think that a lossy

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Migration from Windows - Ubuntu full-time, SlimServer-oriented programs?

2007-04-18 Thread Robin Bowes
Mark Lanctot wrote: Balthazar_B;195279 Wrote: Of course if you had a sufficient platform you could run Linux and Windows virtual machines and use each for how it is best suited... I haven't investigated VM - it's very new. When I first started learning all this stuff, it was dual boot.

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Migration from Windows - Ubuntu full-time, SlimServer-oriented programs?

2007-04-18 Thread Robin Bowes
Mark Lanctot wrote: I was thinking of going with 'this' (http://www.abxzone.com/forums/general-intel-platform-discussions/108282-possible-conroe-setup-opinions.html) (Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 or E6700, ASRock 4CoreDual-VSTA along with my old 512 MB DDR400 RAM and AGP video card). I want the

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Migration from Windows - Ubuntu full-time, SlimServer-oriented programs?

2007-04-18 Thread Robin Bowes
Mark Lanctot wrote: Robin Bowes;195897 Wrote: Don't use RAID0 - use RAID1. I'm doing it for speed reasons. Hard drives are just never fast enough. Hard drives are plenty fast enough for *all* slimserver-related purposes. What are you doing that requires more speed? R

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Migration from Windows - Ubuntu full-time, SlimServer-oriented programs?

2007-04-18 Thread Robin Bowes
Mark Lanctot wrote: I've never really understood why people use so much RAM. 512 MB is plenty for me. I never get into paging unless I open a dozen uncompressed images in GIMP. Because the OS can use it to cache disk reads, etc. Plenty of RAM can have a more beneficial effect than a faster

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Migration from Windows - Ubuntu full-time, SlimServer-oriented programs?

2007-04-18 Thread Robin Bowes
Mark Lanctot wrote: Robin Bowes;195898 Wrote: Try flac2mp3 - better than Mareo, IMHO. ;) I probably will Robin, thanks. I can't get Rubyripper to encode to MP3 no matter what I do. I have one last thing to try and then I'm through fooling with it. Can it also do post-processing? I

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] I changed the theme setting now server wont load in browser

2007-04-15 Thread Robin Bowes
redbluemangle wrote: I was trying to set up slim server and after it telling me my music directory wasn't valid, I changed the theme to fishbone. Now I can't bring up localhost:9000 or w/e in my browser. :-( Help? try: http://localhost:9000/default R.

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Can't locate auto/Compress/Zlib/autosplit.ix

2007-03-27 Thread Robin Bowes
Seron wrote: ok. That got me going. I didn't realize that I had to modify the resident perl installation. I thought that slimserver took care of itself and necessary dependencies. I solved this by installing Compress-Zlib the gentoo way Code: emerge -atv

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] problem upgrading to 6.5 on redhat 7.3

2007-03-24 Thread Robin Bowes
phango13 wrote: This is all with MySQL version 3.23.49 running (as it was when slimserver was installed) I think you'll find that slimserver requires MySQL 4.x. R. ___ unix mailing list unix@lists.slimdevices.com

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Ubuntu and SlimServer 7.0 issues

2007-03-22 Thread Robin Bowes
powergen wrote: PS: This new version sucks, especially the non-intuitive web interface, I much prefer the last one v7.0 is a work in progress. New features are being tested. Things are broken. Please use 6.5.2 if you don't understand or are not prepared to put up with this. R.

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] File sharing between Solaris 10 and XP, suggestions

2007-03-05 Thread Robin Bowes
4mula1 wrote: I don't want to spend any money on this if I don't have to, so I'm looking for any other options I might've missed. Here's one: junk Solaris and run Linux. Judging by your posts over the last few weeks you've had a less than easy job getting slimserver running on Solaris - 10/10

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Slimserver 6.5.1 and 6.5.2 will not scan / rescan on Opensuse 10.2

2007-03-03 Thread Robin Bowes
suseslim wrote: that was the error meassage: 2007-03-03 21:15:22.6722 Setup::rescan - initiating scan of type: [rescan] Can't write to /tmp/slimserver.log: Permission denied at /usr/local/slimserver/Slim/Utils/Misc.pm line 1117. 2007-03-03 21:15:23.8563 Got to the END. This must be an

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Lightweigth slimserver install - which distro

2007-02-23 Thread Robin Bowes
mikeruss wrote: I have no issues at all with a min. install of FC6 Me neither. If you do a kickstart install, you can install an even-more-minimal install than you can through the installer. I think it comes in at around 480MB. R. ___ unix mailing

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Not a Slim question! ;-)

2007-02-07 Thread Robin Bowes
mikeruss wrote: I'm looking for a an easy to config ftp server for Linux. The few I have looked at look like a pain in the ass to set up. It's for my girl who is a designer to upload/download their graphics etc. At the moment she emails huge files. If you've got sshd on the box, you can use

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