[RDD] Init script unable to create /var/run/rivendell

2015-06-09 Thread James L. Stewart
Oh yea, I ran into this one some time ago. The problem is that Debian moved the "/var/run" director off to a ramdisk (actually "tmpfs" which is much better), so it goes away after each reboot. So what I did is in my /etc/rc.local file I added: mkdir /var/run/rivendell chmod rivendell /var/run

Re: [RDD] Rivendell-dev Digest, Vol 26, Issue 8

2015-06-09 Thread James L. Stewart
Yea, this seems really nice! My biggest concern is using the audio out that is built into the Pi. I think I was reading somewhere that it doesn't even do 16-bit resolution and it kind of sounds like it doesn't as I hear some low level "fuzziness" riding on the audio, especially at low levels.

Re: [RDD] Init script unable to create /var/run/rivendell

2015-06-09 Thread Dave B
Never did find out the reason... On 6/9/2015 5:14 PM, Alessio Elmi wrote: Just to understand: could find out the reason in the end? I mean.. in /etc/init.d/ there are other scripts, aren't they? Debian default stuff.. what could be the differnece between them and your script? Maybe it's time

Re: [RDD] Init script unable to create /var/run/rivendell

2015-06-09 Thread Alessio Elmi
Just to understand: could find out the reason in the end? I mean.. in /etc/init.d/ there are other scripts, aren't they? Debian default stuff.. what could be the differnece between them and your script? Maybe it's time to deal with a systemd script.. Il giorno mar 9 giu 2015 alle ore 22:55 Dave B

Re: [RDD] Init script unable to create /var/run/rivendell

2015-06-09 Thread Dave B
I've already tried that Alessio. On 6/9/2015 4:31 PM, Alessio Elmi wrote: Do you mean the file located in /etc/init.d/rivendell ? Is there any problem in chown that init script by 'root' and let it create a folder in /var/run which belongs to 'rivendell'? _

Re: [RDD] Init script unable to create /var/run/rivendell

2015-06-09 Thread Alessio Elmi
Do you mean the file located in /etc/init.d/rivendell ? Is there any problem in chown that init script by 'root' and let it create a folder in /var/run which belongs to 'rivendell'? Il giorno mar 9 giu 2015 alle ore 21:04 Frederick Gleason < fr...@paravelsystems.com> ha scritto: > On Jun 9, 2015,

Re: [RDD] OT 1U Rackmount Audio Receiver (Pi)

2015-06-09 Thread Alessio Elmi
Really impressivve! Excellent job! Il giorno mar 9 giu 2015 alle ore 18:22 Wayne Merricks < waynemerri...@thevoiceasia.com> ha scritto: > Hi all, > > Off topic but I had to build an "audio codec" for very little money and > at short notice (less than 12 hours). Now that the heart attack has > fi

Re: [RDD] OT 1U Rackmount Audio Receiver (Pi)

2015-06-09 Thread Alessio Elmi
Il giorno mar 9 giu 2015 alle ore 18:22 Wayne Merricks < waynemerri...@thevoiceasia.com> ha scritto: > Hi all, > > Off topic but I had to build an "audio codec" for very little money and > at short notice (less than 12 hours). Now that the heart attack has > finished I wrote up the install with s

Re: [RDD] OT 1U Rackmount Audio Receiver (Pi)

2015-06-09 Thread Morten Krarup Nielsen
If your budget allows it, this case would be so cool for displaying the audio-levels: http://store.earthlcd.com/pi-RAQ 2015-06-09 18:22 GMT+02:00 Wayne Merricks : > Hi all, > > Off topic but I had to build an "audio codec" for very little money and at > short notice (less than 12 hours). Now tha

Re: [RDD] Init script unable to create /var/run/rivendell

2015-06-09 Thread Frederick Gleason
On Jun 9, 2015, at 13:05 17, Wayne Merricks wrote: > OK It seems that most distributions are ignoring the super user bit these > days. Most distributions have always shipped with bash(1) configured to ignore the SETUID bit, which means that init scripts will ignore them as well. There are v

Re: [RDD] RDcatch event limit?

2015-06-09 Thread Frederick Gleason
On Jun 9, 2015, at 11:39 57, Bernardo J Mora wrote: > Is there a limit to the number of RD catch events? Trying to troubleshoot why > certain new events may not be 'activating'. Stock RD, CentOS, latest version > of RD. None, other than the physical RAM and disc capacity of the system. Cheers

Re: [RDD] "Include in System Maintenence Pool"

2015-06-09 Thread Frederick Gleason
On Jun 4, 2015, at 07:36 15, Dan Gruner wrote: > Can someone actually tell me what this does please and the situations where > you would/would not have it selected/de-selected? Systems in the maintenance pool are candidates for running periodic background tasks that do things like purge old lo

Re: [RDD] Compiling Rivendell and QT3 errors.

2015-06-09 Thread Frederick Gleason
On Jun 8, 2015, at 22:52 29, Brad Hambleton wrote: > From what I can see, all of the QT3 dependencies are in place, the directory > structure is as It should be. > Am I missing something obvious? This wouldn’t be on CentOS 6 by any chance, would it? Their qt3-devel package fails to list a cou

Re: [RDD] Init script unable to create /var/run/rivendell

2015-06-09 Thread Dave B
What I ended up doing was copying the directory creation code from the Rivendell init script to /etc/rc.local. That way the directory is created at boot time. On 6/9/2015 1:05 PM, Wayne Merricks wrote: OK It seems that most distributions are ignoring the super user bit these days. What abou

Re: [RDD] Init script unable to create /var/run/rivendell

2015-06-09 Thread Wayne Merricks
OK It seems that most distributions are ignoring the super user bit these days. What about changing the group of /var/run to the rivendell users group. In theory this should stick across reboots as its only the contents of /var/run that are deleted if I remember rightly. Regards, Wayne Me

Re: [RDD] Init script unable to create /var/run/rivendell

2015-06-09 Thread Dave B
The script is still not creating the directory. On 6/9/2015 12:43 PM, Wayne Merricks wrote: I thought init would run as root. You can try sudo chmod u+s on the script. This should force root regardless of where/how the script is run. Wayne Merricks The Voice Asia On 09/06/15 17:40, Dave B

[RDD] Fwd: "Include in System Maintenence Pool"

2015-06-09 Thread Dan Gruner
Hi, Anyone able to help with my request below please? Forwarded Message Subject:"Include in System Maintenence Pool" Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2015 12:36:15 +0100 From: Dan Gruner To: rivendell-dev@lists.rivendellaudio.org Hi, "Include in System Maintenence Pool"

Re: [RDD] Init script unable to create /var/run/rivendell

2015-06-09 Thread Wayne Merricks
I thought init would run as root. You can try sudo chmod u+s on the script. This should force root regardless of where/how the script is run. Wayne Merricks The Voice Asia On 09/06/15 17:40, Dave B wrote: Hi all, New install on Debian 8. It seems the init script is unable to create /var/ru

[RDD] Init script unable to create /var/run/rivendell

2015-06-09 Thread Dave B
Hi all, New install on Debian 8. It seems the init script is unable to create /var/run/rivendell. Do I need to change the owner and/or group of the script? Right now the owner and group is root and is allowed to be run as an executable. If I run the script as superuser it will create the dire

[RDD] OT 1U Rackmount Audio Receiver (Pi)

2015-06-09 Thread Wayne Merricks
Hi all, Off topic but I had to build an "audio codec" for very little money and at short notice (less than 12 hours). Now that the heart attack has finished I wrote up the install with some pictures over on github. https://github.com/waynemerricks/picodec I think all in, it cost less than £

[RDD] RDcatch event limit?

2015-06-09 Thread Bernardo J Mora
Is there a limit to the number of RD catch events? Trying to troubleshoot why certain new events may not be 'activating'. Stock RD, CentOS, latest version of RD. (sent from mobile device) BJ Mora GraceRadio @ www.graceradio.net ___ Rivendell-dev mailin