Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] How do I delay Squeezebox Server startup till after network connects

2009-12-15 Thread llin
Adding "sleep 10" to a startup script (rc.local in my case) will delay execution for 10 seconds. -- llin llin's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3968 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/

[SlimDevices: Unix] New Install of Squeezebox server

2009-12-15 Thread VaineDragon
I using Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy with eBox 1.2.2-9, I had no issues with the Squeezeboxserver last time around. I did a fresh server install and like wise for Squeezeboxserver, it's running according to ps aux | grep squeezeboxserver Problem being that I can't connect via Hostname, IP Address or Domain

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] SCC 7.4.1 can't see my USB drives?

2009-12-15 Thread snarlydwarf
pablolie;496052 Wrote: > and in Unix always meant that everything I install gets my privileges - > no more, no less. That is the whole philosophy of access rights and > security policies. Apache does not get your privileges. MySQL does not (try 'select into outfile' type things with it...). S

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] SCC 7.4.1 can't see my USB drives?

2009-12-15 Thread pablolie
snarlydwarf;495888 Wrote: > > SBS does -NOT- mount your drive, it does NOT enforce permissions on > your drive: the kernel does, and it does so with the guidance that > Ubuntu has when seeing new removable media. I will keep this short - SBS should not mount my drive and I have never claimed I

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] SCC 7.4.1 can't see my USB drives?

2009-12-15 Thread pablolie
i truly did not intend to side-track this thread with anything that resembles OS religion. however i do think that something like trying to use SBS brings to light the issues with the different "user friendly" Linux distros, that's all. i shall not perpetuate the "OS philosophy" aspect of the t

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] Process that shows SBS is active ?

2009-12-15 Thread epoch1970
Lookup the srvPowerControl Plugin thread in 3rd Party forums. It has a lot of features, and you can mix and match with your other power management routines. -- epoch1970 epoch1970's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] SCC 7.4.1 can't see my USB drives?

2009-12-15 Thread Pat Farrell
hungarianhc wrote: > pfarrell;495905 Wrote: >> What don't you like about issuing one recursive chmod in the lifetime >> of a disk drive? > I use rsync to keep my music in sync. I believe that running a > recursive chmod will "modify" the files, and rsync will then overwrite > them again, and I'll

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] SCC 7.4.1 can't see my USB drives?

2009-12-15 Thread snarlydwarf
probedb;495890 Wrote: > Then kindly leave this thread as that's it's entire point or I'm going > to ask a mod to lock it! If "Ubuntu is dumb when it mounts removable NTFS drives", then this is entirely the wrong place to take that up. Ubuntu has their own forums. -- snarlydwarf -

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] SCC 7.4.1 can't see my USB drives?

2009-12-15 Thread hungarianhc
pfarrell;495905 Wrote: > > What don't you like about issuing one recursive chmod in the lifetime > of a disk drive? I use rsync to keep my music in sync. I believe that running a recursive chmod will "modify" the files, and rsync will then overwrite them again, and I'll be back where I started

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] SCC 7.4.1 can't see my USB drives?

2009-12-15 Thread Pat Farrell
hungarianhc wrote: > I really hate my implementation of chmod'ing the files. > Is there an fstab setting that will make everything all better? fstab is pretty much unrelated to chmod. You should not have to do it more than once in a lifetime, if Logitech would stop renaming the server software an

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] SCC 7.4.1 can't see my USB drives?

2009-12-15 Thread Pat Farrell
probedb wrote: > snarlydwarf;495888 Wrote: >> I would agree that the pretty UI that Ubuntu insists on giving you is >> broken: it should be possible to mount an external drive as part of the >> boot process. For some things, you may just have to break down and do >> it by hand, though, I don't us

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] SCC 7.4.1 can't see my USB drives?

2009-12-15 Thread hungarianhc
probedb;495890 Wrote: > Then kindly leave this thread as that's it's entire point or I'm going > to ask a mod to lock it! No don't lock it, please! I use EXT2 for my external drives, but this is valuable conversation!!! Have we figured out a "best practice solution" btw? I really hate my implemen

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] SCC 7.4.1 can't see my USB drives?

2009-12-15 Thread snarlydwarf
pablolie;495882 Wrote: > My understanding is that indeed you should never, ever do anything as > root. There are several system folders that are and should be locked for > any user other than root on the system, for good reasons. Oversimplistic view. I have a dozen web/mail/svn/firewalls and su

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] SCC 7.4.1 can't see my USB drives?

2009-12-15 Thread probedb
snarlydwarf;495888 Wrote: > I would agree that the pretty UI that Ubuntu insists on giving you is > broken: it should be possible to mount an external drive as part of the > boot process. For some things, you may just have to break down and do > it by hand, though, I don't use ntfs so no interes

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] SCC 7.4.1 can't see my USB drives?

2009-12-15 Thread probedb
I think we're getting off topic here. The underlying issues I have with sbs are: 1. It is now installed and run as it's own user rather than root, this causes the second problem 2. Automounted drives (directories only) are not given any group or world permissions therefore the new sbs user cann

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] SCC 7.4.1 can't see my USB drives?

2009-12-15 Thread pablolie
> That's not how Unix permissions work. > > root installed apache2... but it is owned by www-data. My understanding is that indeed you should never, ever do anything as root. There are several system folders that are and should be locked for any user other than root on the system, for good reaso

Re: [SlimDevices: Unix] SCC 7.4.1 can't see my USB drives?

2009-12-15 Thread probedb
hungarianhc;495737 Wrote: > Here's a temporary solution... > > I have my music folder rsync'd onto a USB drive that is attached to my > sheevaplug, and I was having the same problem as you, where SB Server > could not see any of the music. I ran the following command on my music > folder: > > c