ectory. Right click "Properties"
click on "permissions" tab.
set world read
Make sure it works all the way down your structure.
Most folks would use the shell.
chmod 755 /songs
and perhaps
chown -R slimserver:slimserver /songs
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DLloyd wrote:
> The hardware I'm thinking of using for this is a Shuttle XPC Barebone
> PC (model SD37P2 V2), with a spare Intel Pentium D 830 Dual Core (3.0
> GHz) CPU that I have, probably 2 GB of 667 MHz memory, a cheap fanless
> video card (Radeon X1050), an Intel Intel PRO/1000 PT Desktop Adap
toby10 wrote:
> Hi pfarrell. Well, I'm not against going the computer route. I was
> just looking for the simplest, most idiot proof way of using SB3 on a
> daily basis.
Can't address the steering nut issue, but I have used old cast off PCs
since I got my first SB 1 (no G) years ago.
> If I d
toby10 wrote:
> Is there anyone out there that would (could) set up a simple, wired NAS
> device for SB3 & SS for a fee?
I bet there is. I might even be willing.
But why a NAS? There have been many threads on them, and I just don't
see the attraction.
Have you considered just using an old PC,
mgh wrote:
> Having a problem with something else, and want to eliminate SS as a
> possibility. I am still a newbie to Linux, and do not know how to turn
> SS off. Can anyone give me instructions?
How do you turn it on? Which disto?
On many Linux distros, there is a "standard" way to turn daemo
ptop.
Do you have firewalls running on the laptop and/or server?
Is the SlimServer running? can you confirm that locally on the server?
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vaughn808 wrote:
> I have attempted to access the slimserver from my laptop using the
> squeezebox's :9000, but I am getting an error message in my
> browser that says problem loading page the server at is
> taking to long to respond. I obtained the ip address from the
> squeezebox by looking und
snarlydwarf wrote:
> Stop making mindless personal attacks.
>
> Is it too much to ask you -read- what I posted before yelling at me?
Yelling?
>> Lighten up.
Sorry, this has become pointless. I had no intention of insulting you,
I believe I have not insulted you. I am sorry that you think so.
kdf wrote:
> On 30-Jun-07, at 7:13 PM, Pat Farrell wrote:
>> And the only answer is that the apt-get package file is mis-configured.
>
> I believe that postfix is a requirement of mysql or one of the other
> subcomponents in the dependacies.
>
> http://forums.slimdevi
snarlydwarf wrote:
> Real men, then, end up with tons of cruft.
Like a mail daemon on a slimserver?
Lighten up.
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snarlydwarf wrote:
> I didn't say it did I don't know nor care about what YOUR server
> runs. The question was why an apt-get command wanted to install
> postfix.
And the only answer is that the apt-get package file is mis-configured.
>> There is no reason to require that.
>
> No reason t
snarlydwarf wrote:
> Odds are that Slimserver requires cron, which requires a mail server of
> somee sort (to send cron-mail to).
My slimserver does not run postfix
There is no reason to require that.
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tellum wrote:
> I'm installing Slimserver 6.5.2 on Ubuntu 6.06 using the Debian package.
> During the install I was prompted through the terminal to configure
> Postfix. I could not find any documentation about how to do this. Can
> anyone help?
I can't imagine why it is asking you that.
Postfi
rees wrote:
> I see 6.5.2 is out now and I went to download it, but there is a new
> click-through license that prohibits modifying the source.
read it again.
or search the forum archives.
The firmware (SB2/3/Transporter) is not open source.
The server is, and Logitech says it will always be so
Michael Herger wrote:
>> there a utility I can run, preferably as a cron, which would connect to
>> an internet timeserver and update my hardware clock?
>
> ntpdate ntp.vtx.ch
There are many, but it is better to use a pool source near you.
Michael is near Switzerland, but that would be a bad sou
mgh wrote:
> I tried a sudo command (my first try at any command line) that I saw
> in another post, but got message that no such command existed (or
> something to that affect).
You should see something like this
sudo
usage: sudo -K | -L | -V | -h | -k | -l | -v
usage: sudo [-HPSb] [-p prompt]
rmariger wrote:
> If I was to run a computer literally all the time, I would consider the
> basement thing. But I intend to have it on only in the weekday evening
> hours and all-day on weekends that I am home. (I am single and live
> alone.)
So you are looking at running it, say 18:00 until 0
C
as a stream to a windoze box just fine. Or at least, it worked well
last time I checked, I try to avoid the dark side as much as I can these
days.
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ut
knowing the details of the configuration. You can get a ballpark idea
from the power supply faceplate rating, but some systems use 95% of the
label, and some use 20%.
A fair number of laptops, espcially those sold as desktop replacements,
are not power efficient.
> Pat Farrell;198214 Wrote:
I'm typing this now
on an ancient Dell laptop wirelessly. The Knoppix live CDs are a great
way to test things. But it is hard to test a used laptop.
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Mark Lanctot wrote:
> and I'm rethinking this. That motherboard offers me a unique
> opportunity - a gradual upgrade over the course of the next year or two
> rather than a huge (expensive) upgrade in about 2 years' time.
Two years? In two years, a minimal PC for actual use will have 8 or 16
CPU
nicketynick wrote:
> Tried this:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo chmod ugo+rwx /media/DRV4_VOL2/My\ Music
try
sudo chmod -R 755 /media/DRV4_VOL2/My\ Music
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nicketynick wrote:
> bukharin;193830 Wrote:
>> If the above steps don't resolve the problem, then the most likely
>> problem is that slimserver doesn't have permission to read the files
>> (or browse the directories) on the external drive. How are the
>> permissions set?
>
> Here is the output fr
nicketynick wrote:
> Ok, I have slimserver up & running on my Ubuntu Drake box - my music is
> on an external drive - what do I type in the slimserver to point it at
> the music?
Can you use a shell (or konqueror, or whatever GUI file manager) to see
the external drive?
Do you have to mount the
beachreader wrote:
> hmm rough crowd here I seesorry I asked... any suggestions on which
> "distribution" has a clear step by step process to install linux on a
> second hard drive and works well with one of the 2 linux slimserver
> downloads. thanks
Do you have a buddy?
Every one that I've t
beachreader wrote:
> Does anyone have any suggestions on a Linux brand or verison
The normal term is "distribution" since that is the main distinction.
Distributions have names like Ubuntu, SuSE, Fedora, Mandriva, etc.
The number one criteria is: Do you have a buddy who uses one distro or
anot
Pellicle wrote:
> Not sure if this is the right forum but I am looking for any insight on
> how to attack the issue noted in my post above.
did you run
build-perl-modules.pl
as the listing suggested?
You probably are missing the glue for Perl to MySql.
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fast eddie wrote:
> I am going to try the latest version of Ubuntu and see how I get on
> with that.
When/if the installer ask you what you want to install, check either all
the "server" options, or everything. Even fully loaded, you only need a
gig or two of disk, and every computer has that.
fast eddie wrote:
> I have been using my office pc running XP as my music server for my SB3
> for a few months hassle free but I have just got hold of a second pc
> and was considering having a go at putting a Linux distro on it and
> then using that as the server.
Good idea :-)
> As a complete
buelligan wrote:
> I hope to be joining your ranks soon...
welcome, are you escaping from the evil Redmondian empire?
> and I was wondering which drives
> this fine community has found to work well.
I can't answer your direct question, I've never tried one, but why would
you want to use a USB h
t; What should I do? I don't even know if my mysql server is ok now...
Get a shell, type
mysql
and see what it says.
and try
mysql mysql -u root
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The question is: Before I go off and buy a card does anyone know of a
PCI card which will work with FC6 without to much driver/install
issues.
Mitch Harding wrote:
I don't have the answer to your question, but I will caution you that
many people in this forum do not recommend having
freelsjd wrote:
I am using mysql, but don't remember how I set all this up.
then start the mysqld server and get
MySql requires the daemon. Most installs set up a auto start
for it, it won't work until you get that.
mysql
ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using
thespaugh wrote:
> Is there a command to see if the service has really started?
It varies by distro, but it should be something like
sudo /etc/init.d/slimserver status
> My browser times out when I try to see http://localhost:9000
Are you on the same computer as the SlimServer? or do you need
Anthony wrote:
> Hey all! 1st post here.
Welcome.
> I'm a Linux sysadmin at work, so I'm pretty comfortable with Fedora,
> RedHat, Linux, RAID stuff. What I'm not experienced with is ripping,
> sharing, and broadcasting music throughout my house.
ripping is easy, grip does a decent job.
Altho
MPAC wrote:
> [root /etc]# ps -ef | grep slim
> [root /etc]# ps -ef | grep slimserver
> root 20906 12907 0 19:03 pts/000:00:00 grep slimserver
This means it is not running.
You can try manually starting it, the command varies a bit depending on
your distro
On Mandriva and many RedHat ba
I'm trying to get my SlimServer installation working on my main
music machine. After just 554 days, it crashed and it seemed like
a good excuse to try to install Mandriva 2007
I'm recording what I've found, and already upgraded the wiki on
some modules that have changed, but I'm stuck now.
I've
RuffBCagnus wrote:
> So I added slimserver to the music group, and did a "chmod 770 music
> -R" no luck.. then I did a "chmod 777 music -R" and poof.. there they
> are!
>
> So that's awesome, but doesn't that "others" group mean anyone could
> jump on my computer w/ the correct IP address and mes
RuffBCagnus wrote:
> setup process). Like I said, it'll accept /home/music but not
> /home/music/MUZIK. the "music" directory and "MUZIK" directory have the
> exact same permission settings...
Bad name, *nix are case sensitive.
Might want to try mv'ing it to muzik
or even /home/songs
> I turne
RuffBCagnus wrote:
> First off I'm new to the forum, so hi! Secondly, I don't have a
> squeezebox, but I'm hoping to pick one up soon. I'm running Fedora
> Core 5, and everything seems to be functioning (with softsqueeze),
> except that when I scan my music library, it finds nothing!
I think y
AndyL wrote:
> Pretty total Linux newbie looking for the simple console command to
> shutdown Slimserver on my Debian (Xandros) machine.
er, why would you want to do that? Do you shut down your machine?
I leave mine up all the time.
(beatles)/etc/rc.d/init.d> uptime
23:56:30 up 493 days, 11:08,
Dan Sully wrote:
* jffkm shaped the electrons to say...
update'ing. then realized that there are no ppc deb packages at
debian.slimdevices.com. am I missing something or have the packages
not been compiled yet? hoping to get 6.5 up and running but i'm having
a heck of a time getting to the en
Dan Sully wrote:
* Fletch shaped the electrons to say...
We don't ship a x86_64 mysqld binary.
Understood, but wouldn't it still be nice if it worked "out of the box"
by finding and running the i386 mysqld binary?
Will that always work? Can you run a x86_64 bit system in 64bit only mode?
tyler_durden wrote:
I'm still wet behind my linux ears, so I am wondering if this means the
.deb package isn't going to work for me and I should use the tarball
instead. But there is a bigger question- is my amd64 install of linux
simply not compatible with slimserver?
I use Mandriva, not Ubun
Andy Hawkins wrote:
I have a DREAMHOST hosting, with 1GB of bandwith per month.
How i make the install on the hosting server??
I wouldn't personally. My FLAC files are about 400 Meg or so. That's less
than 3 albums a month that you could listen to.
Even with MP3, I reckon about 100 Meg per al
cmcneil wrote:
So what say you all? What is the easiest, just works out of the box
install for a linux version - or is there one?
This is very dangerous question, as it is more philosphy or theology
than technology.
I personally use Mandriva, have been running my slimserver on it for a
very
Mark Lanctot wrote:
Pat Farrell;134208 Wrote:
Rather than your named/bind
entries are broken.
I'm not sure what you mean here.
named (aka bind) is the program that does DNS resolution.
It is the program running on some server, usually your ISP's that does
the name resolution
Mark Lanctot wrote:
Chip Hart;134207 Wrote:
Start your machine without
starting slim and see if it happens. If it continues to be a
problem, I'd stop looking at slim as the problem.
How do I stop SlimServer from automatically starting? As with
everything in Ubuntu, there's a GUI tool for t
Mark Lanctot wrote:
OK, this is no longer fun.
This behavior is persisting after a reboot. Every time I reboot or
restart, my DNS entries have been cleared and I have to add them again.
Annoying to say the least.
I don't speak debian, but have you tried doing the dns setup by hand,
like we h
grough wrote:
Has anybody had problems connecting to a Squeezebox with a static IP?
DHCP works fine,
I do it all the time.
Now, I assume you mean that the SqueezeBox has a static ip.
What is the address of the server? On the same net/subnet?
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SadGamerGeek wrote:
I'm using MySQL as installed as part of 6.5b on Fedora FC5, but I can't
work out how to get a command line SQL client session. Does the 6.5
MySQL include a client, or just Perl modules? Can I use a Perl module
to get a client session?
Of course, there are tons of clients.
Th
nicketynick wrote:
> I'm starting to think I should just go get a new drive and a USB
> enclosure, so I can just format the drive FAT32 from scratch and be
> done.
I've lost track of what kind of computer you are using, but
rather than play arround with some weird external box while
you are trying
nicketynick wrote:
> I'm totally unhappy right now - PartitionMagic v8 won't seem to work
> with this stupid USB hard drive. There has to be a simple way of
> putting a FAT32 partition on this drive.
Go to a working computer with a CD burner,
go get the gparted-livecd
http://sourceforge.net/proje
nicketynick wrote:
> Thanks for the tips so far - so should I switch to Redhat (or variant),
> or no?
I believe, IMHO, YMMV, and all that, that the most important reason to
select any distribution is that you have a buddy running it.
Having a friend that you can call when you get lost is priceless
kento wrote:
> How do I get SlimServer to start on startup in Linux?
>
> I'm running SlimServer on a Buffalo LinkStation (HG-300), but every
> time I reboot the LinkStation I have to telnet to it and start
> SlimServer manually.
It depends on which "distro" you are running. There are many ways
to
killick wrote:
Kevin P. at Slim Devices support gave me instructions to make sure that
the SB2 MAC address matched the address on the bottom of the unit. But
what should match to what?
SB2 setup MAC address does match the ethernet MAC address on the bottom
of the unit, but...
Then you are don
apr wrote:
This is not an internet or firewall problem. As I said, I can connect
remotely to the slimserver just fine via port 9000. It's just that no
music comes out and no song info is displayed.
And this has nothing to do with my Squeezebox, which is working just
fine.
So what does it have
snarlydwarf wrote:
IPGuy Wrote:
Can't exec "make": No such file or directory at
/usr/local/slimserver/Bin/build-perl-modules.pl line 208, line
3.
Your system doesn't have 'make' installed.
Wow, I never heard of a system without make.
Guess the target users coming over from Windoz don't
exp
On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 16:57 -0800, Steve wrote:
> Many thanks I managed to locate slimserver.pl and initiating it.How can
> I get the slimserver to staryt up when linux is started.
I don't speak SuSe, so I don't know. The usual slimserver.rpm (for
rpm based distros, installs the magic script for
On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 13:27 -0800, Steve wrote:
> > You can run slimserver from the command line to test things out.
> >
> > cd to where slimserver is, usually /usr/local/slimserver and then do
> > ../slimserver
> > Then goto linux:9000
> >
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On Thu, 2005-12-22 at 15:31 -0800, OhioAlternative wrote:
> Just curious what everybody done about security issues. To prevent any
> trojans ,etc from getting on to their media server ? use vpn ,
> firewalls , etc .
Good thing, starting with slim on unix/linux/*bsd
Practice safe computing. Have i
is hard to get excited about the competition.
I kinda wish there was more, that BTX, etc. took off, as
there are lots of issues with the decades old ATX design.
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On Thu, 2005-12-08 at 07:48 -0800, marcus wrote:
> My plan (having given up on using my desktop (too noisy / power hungry)
> and a cobalt raq 3 that I had lying around (too old/awkward) is to
> build a mini-itx box as cheaply as possible. It will just run
> slimserver and samba. Sure the differen
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an AMD 2200+ or so and put a gig of ram.
I don't know if all the gig is needed, but it was too cheap
not to put in.
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On Sun, 2005-12-04 at 00:04 +, John Gorst wrote:
> fans and a power supply with a 12cm fan. Does anyone have any bargains
> in mind - it doesnt have to look good! But it does have to be cheap!
Quiet and cheap at the same time?
That's gonna be a challenge.
Be sure to check the power supply fa
On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 16:27 -0800, radish wrote:
> which are what I typically think of when someone says mini-itx.
The current Via systems are available in what they call 'nano-itx'
Not clear of that form factor is cost effective yet.
> There are also boards which take P4s (and I assume Athlons)
On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 14:57 -0800, radish wrote:
> Just FYI, the power consumption of a mini-itx (15W idle - 30W max)
Is this the same as the VIA EPIA Mainboards?
I seem to recall conflicting reports on whether the Via low
power CPUs can or can not provide sufficient processing
speed to be a good
gt; pidof /usr/local/slimserver/slimserver.pl
(beatles)root#/root> /sbin/pidof slimserver.pl
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On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 14:53 -0800, Triode wrote:
> Yep - this all used to work fine until I upgraded to 2006 :-(
Opps, I missed that part. I'm still in the dark ages
I tend to be trailing edge on things like OS upgrades.
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On Tue, 2005-11-29 at 14:18 -0800, Triode wrote:
> Could someone confirm if they get the following when running on a
> redhat/mandrake distro - or does pidof work in the other cases too?
I've been running Mandriva for quite some time as my SlimServer box.
I've never tried the command you show.
I h
le to use this.
Here, you are showing your linux newbie-ness.
linux has some serious learning curves and setting
up complex software has its own learning curves.
Keep at it, you'll get it.
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On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 14:31 -0800, Boris Denisovich wrote:
> now I have a new problem. It immediately stops without an error
> message. When I started it like: /.../slimserver start --d_source
> --d_stdio I found the follwing in the /tmp/slimserver.log file:
>
> can't create /root/fontcache: Per
On Sat, 2005-11-12 at 10:02 -0800, Ian Leiman wrote:
> Can anyone help in getting a Slimserver to run on a Linux bos, I am
> having servere performance problems?
> So I desided I will make an old fanless PC (P2 300MHz) to run the
> Slimserver,
You've got a box that is ten times slower, you shoul
/home/oscuridad
just be there, untar the file and test locally, the 'tar' will
create a directory something like
/home/oscuridad/SlimServer_6_2_x_v2005-11-09
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oscuridad said:
> Did you download the perl source code?
> Surely this needs compiling first or is there a ready compiled
> tarball?
Perl is not compiled. It is interpreted.
The source code is executed by the Perl interperter at
runtime. (special case exceptions elided)
Really, all you have to d
On Sat, 2005-11-05 at 15:32 -0800, letrout wrote:
> I think I have the SB1, it just says "Squeezebox" on it. Firmware
> version 40.
> I did get it working with FLAC source (uncompressed over network),
The SB1 and SB1/G didn't have the brains to do flac over the net.
They had to uncompress the FL
smb.conf options
The applicable lines in my box are
[songs]
path = /songs/
public = yes
valid users = pfarrell mommabear babybear pcguest
writable = yes
Assuming, of course, that your music library starts in /songs/
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On Sat, 2005-11-05 at 13:01 -0800, CavesOfTQLT wrote:
> upload my music onto it from my XP box?
Lots of options.
The easiest is probably to use FTP or SFTP
assuming your Linux box has the matching FTP or sftp server
or ssh where you can do ftp over ssh tunneling.
Or you can just turn on samba on
On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 19:37 -0800, letrout wrote:
> Interesting, I'll have to keep an eye on how this (FLAC over 802.11b)
> works. So far fine, but of course I've just started listening this way.
> It's easily wired in it's current location, but when I get my bedroom
> set up (not easily wired) per
On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 17:24 -0800, letrout wrote:
> > The log also shows that the player model seems to
> > be squeezebox, so sending FLAC is not an option in this case.
>
> Bummer. I was thinking this feature (FLAC decode in SB) was added in a
> firmware upgrade, but I guess sending it as PCM is
On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 15:26 -0800, RuefulR wrote:
> Increasingly I'm under the impression that Linux, Slimserver, and me
> make for a poor combination.
I can't help with your last problem, but lets see if we can do some
problem isolation on your first one.
> My current problem or problems:
>
>
On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 20:04 -0700, Dan Sully wrote:
> You need to install 'make' on your system.
There are systems without make? Wow, learn something every day
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On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 20:12 -0700, jay_cee_in_da_house wrote:
> Will this 6.2 beta firmware allow wma streams on a SB1? Or is that only
> a SB2 feature?
I can't speak officially, but it is unlikely for new firmware features
to work in SB1s. Part of the joy of the SB2 design is more ability
for Sli
Just a quick note to all the *nix heads. The latest nightly works
perfectly for me. I thought it was time to stick my feet into the 6.*
world. I have been running 5.4.something for a long long time.
So I downloaded the current nightly
slimserver-2005_10_11-1.noarch.rpm
onto my Mandrava 10.1 syste
On Thu, 2005-10-06 at 17:20 -0700, neurophyre wrote:
> Okay, it was a permissions problem. In that tree only, the top-level
> subdirectories and a number of the lower-level ones were set to chmod
> 744.
Wow, I so wanted it to be that the slimserver didn't like your taste in
music: 'electronic and
ghts?
Do you know about the live CD that Michael offers? All setup with
slimserver and ready to boogie.
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On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 14:34 -0700, street_samurai wrote:
> total used free shared buffers cached
> Mem: 906736 902624 4112 0 52996 673352
> -/+ buffers/cache: 176276 730460
So you've got about a full CD worth of memory in buffers
or several CDs of flac or many
> Amazing how long you can use
On Wed, 2005-09-14 at 16:57 +0100, Robin Bowes wrote:
> Pat Farrell wrote:
> > Since ffmpeg is free, why not try it and report back?
> > The program file is small, I can't see it using memory
> > but transcoding is fairly CPU intensive.
>
> Program size is not indi
On Wed, 2005-09-14 at 08:46 -0700, ortho_man wrote:
> I am happy give it a try but I will definitely need
> some help along the way and with deinstallation. Could I be in touch
> with you in case I am stuck? Will go for it then when I find time.
I'm reading this on a mailing list, so I'm not sure
On Wed, 2005-09-14 at 07:08 -0700, ortho_man wrote:
> just been fascinated reading about your approach to playing wma-streams
> via slimserver/squeezebox. I have been looking for a solution that does
> the job with slimserver running on my buffalo linkstation for a while.
> The linkstation has limi
On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 13:23 -0700, jonolumb wrote:
> there is no support for the wma streams- a problem I do not
> have on windows.
See http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/tips.html
There is a write up of how I got WMA to play on my ancient
linux box with a Slim SqueezeBox1
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On Fri, 2005-09-02 at 11:19 -0700, CavesOfTQLT wrote:
> Pat, just to check: I 'cd /etc/inittab' and do an 'ls' which will list
> the files in the directory. How do I then change the 5 to a 3 in the
> 'id:5:initdefault:' line? Do I just type 'id:3:initdefault:' and hit
> enter?
I don't know if you
On Fri, 2005-09-02 at 19:04 +0200, Fabrice Rossi wrote:
> The server will start in most cases, but this is really not a good idea,
> because you services will not be shutdown properly and some might refuse
> to start after that. You should try to log into the linux box from the
> windows machine an
On Fri, 2005-09-02 at 09:30 -0700, CavesOfTQLT wrote:
> 'Bad signature' errors on 3 packages. Even though the installer was
> told to ignore them it still wouldn't install any of the other 83.
This happens, usually caused by sloppy work on the packager who built
the RPM.
> Anywayz, suffice to say
On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 11:40 -0700, CavesOfTQLT wrote:
> Now if I type: perl --version
>
> I get:
>
> This is perl, v5.8.6 built for i386-linux
> (with 1 registered patch, see perl -V for more detail)
Then you have a fine version of perl
>
> Mmm, thought I'd try:
>
> file perl5.8.6
>
> but
On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 11:38 -0700, CavesOfTQLT wrote:
> Pat, if I type ' file /usr/bin/perl5.8.5' I get, wait for it...
>
> /usr/bin/perl5.8.5: cannot open `/usr/bin/perl5.8.5' (No such file or
> directory)
that is bad.
Try a cd to /usr/bin,
do assorted 'ls perl*'
commands.
If you do a 'file' on
On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 11:27 -0700, CavesOfTQLT wrote:
> > Doing a file on that,
> > file perl5.8.5
this is what you type if you have done a cd /usr/bin
or you can do a
file /usr/bin/perl5.8.5
After that, you should probably do a
perl --version
For me, I get
This is perl, v5.8.5 built fo
On Thu, 2005-09-01 at 10:56 -0700, CavesOfTQLT wrote:
> Ah, at the line where it says 'Please enter a perl binary to use
> (defaults to /usr/bin/perl)', I've assumed the default is the correct
> one so I've just hit enter.
It usually is, but you seem to be fighting all odds.
> However if I try '
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