Re: Tip: how to make your own resolv.conf

2022-12-18 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 12/18/22 22:37, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: On 12/18/22 18:00, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 12/18/22 17:57, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: On 12/18/22 17:10, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 12/18/22 15:34, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: Chuckle.  All is took was giving the developers a "doggy chew toy"

Re: Tip: how to make your own resolv.conf

2022-12-18 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 12/18/22 18:00, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 12/18/22 17:57, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: On 12/18/22 17:10, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 12/18/22 15:34, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: Chuckle.  All is took was giving the developers a "doggy chew toy" (fake resolv.conf) to distract them from messing up

Re: dvdformat a loopback device

2022-12-18 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 12/18/2022 9:38 PM, Tim via users wrote: Tim: VTS_01_0.VOB an intro or video menu for playing this video clip VTS_01.1.VOB part 1 of the main feature VTS_01.2.VOB part 2 of the main feature VTS_01.3.VOB part 3 of the main feature, etc. Go Canes: I have seen many DVDs where Title Set 1

Re: dvdformat a loopback device

2022-12-18 Thread Tim via users
On Sun, 2022-12-18 at 21:50 -0500, Go Canes wrote: > I've played around with converting mpg to mp4, but generally wasn't > happy with the quality/size tradeoff and just kept the mpg version. I haven't, but that's what I'd expect. DVD video is already *heavily* compressed. I consider it terrible

Re: dvdformat a loopback device

2022-12-18 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 12/18/2022 9:59 PM, Tim via users wrote: On Sun, 2022-12-18 at 21:16 -0500, Bill Cunningham wrote: But I do want a dvd converted into a mp4. Or an ISO into a mp4. It seems a hard time doing it. If you did the whole disc/iso, you'd get the studio promos, the copyright warnings, the adverts,

Re: dvdformat a loopback device

2022-12-18 Thread Tim via users
On Sun, 2022-12-18 at 21:16 -0500, Bill Cunningham wrote: > But I do want a dvd converted into a mp4. Or an ISO into a mp4. It > seems a hard time doing it. If you did the whole disc/iso, you'd get the studio promos, the copyright warnings, the adverts, the main feature, the shorts, all compiled

Re: dvdformat a loopback device

2022-12-18 Thread Go Canes
On Sun, Dec 18, 2022 at 9:18 PM Bill Cunningham wrote: > How do you get it to convert a directory of VOBs and such into a mp4? For all I know there may be a tool somewhere that will do an entire disk, but I've always done it one title set at a time using steps as indicated in prior posts.

Re: dvdformat a loopback device

2022-12-18 Thread Tim via users
Tim: >> VTS_01_0.VOB an intro or video menu for playing this video clip >> VTS_01.1.VOB part 1 of the main feature >> VTS_01.2.VOB part 2 of the main feature >> VTS_01.3.VOB part 3 of the main feature, etc. Go Canes: > I have seen many DVDs where Title Set 1 was *not* the main feature; I >

Re: dvdformat a loopback device

2022-12-18 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 12/18/2022 9:09 PM, Go Canes wrote: On Sun, Dec 18, 2022 at 8:44 PM Bill Cunningham wrote: The thing is I can't get vlc to convert a DVD a decrypted mirror image of that dvd nor an ISO created from those decrypted files. IDK what it is with vlc. I use it all the time to view. But the

Re: dvdformat a loopback device

2022-12-18 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 12/18/2022 8:58 PM, Tim via users wrote: On Sun, 2022-12-18 at 19:18 -0500, Bill Cunningham wrote: Too answer many people's questions here, as to what I want to accomplish; is there some way to make these huge 7 GB ISOs smaller? Are you trying to squish a double-sided DVD onto a

Re: dvdformat a loopback device

2022-12-18 Thread Go Canes
On Sun, Dec 18, 2022 at 9:08 PM Tim via users wrote: > VTS_01_0.VOB an intro or video menu for playing this video clip > VTS_01.1.VOB part 1 of the main feature > VTS_01.2.VOB part 2 of the main feature > VTS_01.3.VOB part 3 of the main feature, etc. I have seen many DVDs where Title Set 1

Re: dvdformat a loopback device

2022-12-18 Thread Go Canes
On Sun, Dec 18, 2022 at 8:44 PM Bill Cunningham wrote: > The thing is I can't get vlc to convert a DVD a decrypted mirror image > of that dvd nor an ISO created from those decrypted files. IDK what it > is with vlc. I use it all the time to view. But the convert options with > vlc. I get a short

Re: dvdformat a loopback device

2022-12-18 Thread Tim via users
On Sun, 2022-12-18 at 20:42 -0500, Bill Cunningham wrote: > The thing is I can't get vlc to convert a DVD a decrypted mirror image > of that dvd nor an ISO created from those decrypted files. IDK what it > is with vlc. I use it all the time to view. But the convert options with > vlc. I get a

Re: Tip: how to make your own resolv.conf

2022-12-18 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 12/18/22 17:57, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: On 12/18/22 17:10, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 12/18/22 15:34, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: Chuckle.  All is took was giving the developers a "doggy chew toy" (fake resolv.conf) to distract them from messing up my networking and all suddenly worked.

Re: dvdformat a loopback device

2022-12-18 Thread Tim via users
On Sun, 2022-12-18 at 19:18 -0500, Bill Cunningham wrote: > Too answer many people's questions here, as to what I want to > accomplish; is there some way to make these huge 7 GB ISOs smaller? Are you trying to squish a double-sided DVD onto a single-sided DVD and play it in a DVD player? Are

Re: Tip: how to make your own resolv.conf

2022-12-18 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 12/18/22 17:10, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 12/18/22 15:34, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: Chuckle.  All is took was giving the developers a "doggy chew toy" (fake resolv.conf) to distract them from messing up my networking and all suddenly worked. Clearly you missed the documentation that that's

Re: dvdformat a loopback device

2022-12-18 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 12/18/2022 7:52 PM, Go Canes wrote: On Sun, Dec 18, 2022 at 7:18 PM Bill Cunningham wrote: Too answer many people's questions here, as to what I want to accomplish; is there some way to make these huge 7 GB ISOs smaller? Converting to an mp4 would be the simple answer, but not a simple

Re: Tip: how to make your own resolv.conf

2022-12-18 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 12/18/22 15:34, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: Chuckle.  All is took was giving the developers a "doggy chew toy" (fake resolv.conf) to distract them from messing up my networking and all suddenly worked. Clearly you missed the documentation that that's how to do it. The must think

Re: dvdformat a loopback device

2022-12-18 Thread Go Canes
On Sun, Dec 18, 2022 at 7:18 PM Bill Cunningham wrote: > Too answer many people's questions here, as to what I want to > accomplish; is there some way to make these huge 7 GB ISOs smaller? > Converting to an mp4 would be the simple answer, but not a simple task > as I am finding. Assuming you

Re: dvdformat a loopback device

2022-12-18 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 12/18/2022 7:05 PM, Tim via users wrote: On Mon, 2022-12-19 at 10:29 +1030, Tim wrote: To create a playable DVD, the files have to be put into the master image (the ISO file, in your example), in order. DVD players are very simple, and expect the first file at the start of the disc, and

Re: dvdformat a loopback device

2022-12-18 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 12/18/2022 6:59 PM, Tim via users wrote: On Sun, 2022-12-18 at 17:44 -0500, Bill Cunningham wrote: OK so how exactly do I create an "empty" ISO file? I will try to explain by example. As above say I have an "empty" vfat format. mount /dev/loop /mnt which is attached to a FILE. copy files

Re: dvdformat a loopback device

2022-12-18 Thread Tim via users
On Mon, 2022-12-19 at 10:29 +1030, Tim wrote: > To create a playable DVD, the files have to be put into the master > image (the ISO file, in your example), in order. DVD players are very > simple, and expect the first file at the start of the disc, and the > rest in sequence. They can do a bit

Re: dvdformat a loopback device

2022-12-18 Thread Tim via users
On Sun, 2022-12-18 at 17:44 -0500, Bill Cunningham wrote: > OK so how exactly do I create an "empty" ISO file? I will try to explain > by example. > > As above say I have an "empty" vfat format. > > mount /dev/loop /mnt which is attached to a FILE. > > copy files manually into the /mnt

Re: dvdformat a loopback device

2022-12-18 Thread Go Canes
On Sun, Dec 18, 2022 at 5:45 PM Bill Cunningham wrote: > OK so how exactly do I create an "empty" ISO file? I will try to explain > by example. Why do you want to create an empty ISO file? The way I do it is: - create a normal directory - put the contents of the DVD in said directory; i.e., if

Re: Dvdauthor and dvdbackup

2022-12-18 Thread Tim via users
On Sun, 2022-12-18 at 14:14 -0500, Bill C wrote: > I notice a DVD, or ISO that has special features usually is converted > to a much smaller acceptable size with just a feature. Something is > being done there, I hope that makes sense. If you look at the files on a DVD, you'll see a structure

Re: Tip: how to make your own resolv.conf

2022-12-18 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 12/18/22 13:42, Felix Miata wrote: Tom Horsley composed on 2022-12-18 16:27 (UTC-0500): On Sun, 18 Dec 2022 21:19:02 + Barry wrote: That like my router config. Except I use systemd-networkd not networkmanager. Its been stable over lots of fedora releases. Right up till the release

Re: Tip: how to make your own resolv.conf

2022-12-18 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 12/18/22 13:54, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 12/17/22 16:38, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: If you are tired of all the bugs and Micky Mouse surrounding /etc/resolv.conf, here is how to make your own that Micky can't alter: Your problem appears to be that you're trying to configure your system

Re: Tip: how to make your own resolv.conf

2022-12-18 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 12/18/22 06:22, Roger Heflin wrote: From what I can tell they developers expect everyone to do the config in exactly one way. If you do the config differently (ie the old way, and if dns is not configured/defined I assume from dhcp and/or directly in the  Network manager config), then

Re: dvdformat a loopback device

2022-12-18 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 12/18/22 14:44, Bill Cunningham wrote: OK so how exactly do I create an "empty" ISO file? I will try to explain by example. The simple answer is you don't. They are not designed for that. However, there is a multi-session extension that lets you add another chunk of files to an existing

Re: dvdformat a loopback device

2022-12-18 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 12/18/2022 5:08 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 12/18/22 14:03, Bill Cunningham wrote: On 12/18/2022 4:47 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 12/18/22 13:40, Bill Cunningham wrote: IDK if you can do this or not. Say if you have a file that is 2.048 Gig and it is attached to a loopback device, say

Re: dvdformat a loopback device

2022-12-18 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 12/18/2022 5:08 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 12/18/22 14:03, Bill Cunningham wrote: On 12/18/2022 4:47 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 12/18/22 13:40, Bill Cunningham wrote: IDK if you can do this or not. Say if you have a file that is 2.048 Gig and it is attached to a loopback device, say

Re: dvdformat a loopback device

2022-12-18 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 12/18/22 14:03, Bill Cunningham wrote: On 12/18/2022 4:47 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 12/18/22 13:40, Bill Cunningham wrote: IDK if you can do this or not. Say if you have a file that is 2.048 Gig and it is attached to a loopback device, say /dev/loop0, losetup /dev/loop0 FILE_NAME, And

Re: dvdformat a loopback device

2022-12-18 Thread Go Canes
On Sun, Dec 18, 2022 at 5:03 PM Bill Cunningham wrote: > losetup /dev/loop0 FILE to mount the loopback, > > mkfs.vfat -F 32 /dev/loop0 > > and detach and xxd -g1 FILE. Use mkiso to create FILE, and then you can hexdump FILE directly. You can also then "mount FILE /mt" (or similar) if you want

Re: dvdformat a loopback device

2022-12-18 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 12/18/2022 5:02 PM, Go Canes wrote: On Sun, Dec 18, 2022 at 4:41 PM Bill Cunningham wrote: IDK if you can do this or not. Say if you have a file that is 2.048 Gig and it is attached to a loopback device, say /dev/loop0, losetup /dev/loop0 FILE_NAME, And you tried cdrwtool -d /dev/loop0

Re: dvdformat a loopback device

2022-12-18 Thread Bill Cunningham
On 12/18/2022 4:47 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote: On 12/18/22 13:40, Bill Cunningham wrote: IDK if you can do this or not. Say if you have a file that is 2.048 Gig and it is attached to a loopback device, say /dev/loop0, losetup /dev/loop0 FILE_NAME, And you tried cdrwtool -d /dev/loop0 -q; Now I

Re: dvdformat a loopback device

2022-12-18 Thread Go Canes
On Sun, Dec 18, 2022 at 4:41 PM Bill Cunningham wrote: > > IDK if you can do this or not. Say if you have a file that is 2.048 Gig > and it is attached to a loopback device, say /dev/loop0, > > losetup /dev/loop0 FILE_NAME, > > And you tried cdrwtool -d /dev/loop0 -q; > > Now I have tried this

Re: Tip: how to make your own resolv.conf

2022-12-18 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 12/17/22 16:38, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: If you are tired of all the bugs and Micky Mouse surrounding /etc/resolv.conf, here is how to make your own that Micky can't alter: Your problem appears to be that you're trying to configure your system outside of the normal tools to do so.

Re: dvdformat a loopback device

2022-12-18 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 12/18/22 13:40, Bill Cunningham wrote: IDK if you can do this or not. Say if you have a file that is 2.048 Gig and it is attached to a loopback device, say /dev/loop0, losetup /dev/loop0 FILE_NAME, And you tried cdrwtool -d /dev/loop0 -q; Now I have tried this and get errors. IDK if

Re: Tip: how to make your own resolv.conf

2022-12-18 Thread Felix Miata
Tom Horsley composed on 2022-12-18 16:27 (UTC-0500): > On Sun, 18 Dec 2022 21:19:02 + Barry wrote: >> That like my router config. Except I use systemd-networkd not networkmanager. >> Its been stable over lots of fedora releases. > Right up till the release when they decide to eradicate it >

dvdformat a loopback device

2022-12-18 Thread Bill Cunningham
IDK if you can do this or not. Say if you have a file that is 2.048 Gig and it is attached to a loopback device, say /dev/loop0, losetup /dev/loop0 FILE_NAME, And you tried cdrwtool -d /dev/loop0 -q; Now I have tried this and get errors. IDK if there's a way around this, a safety issue that

Re: Tip: how to make your own resolv.conf

2022-12-18 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sun, 18 Dec 2022 21:19:02 + Barry wrote: > That like my router config. Except I use systemd-networkd not networkmanager. > Its been stable over lots of fedora releases. Right up till the release when they decide to eradicate it because everyone must use NetworkManager :-). That's why I

Re: Tip: how to make your own resolv.conf

2022-12-18 Thread Barry
> On 18 Dec 2022, at 08:25, ToddAndMargo via users > wrote: > > On 12/17/22 19:24, Tim via users wrote: >>> On Sat, 2022-12-17 at 16:38 -0800, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: >>> If you are tired of all the bugs and Micky Mouse >>> surrounding /etc/resolv.conf, here is how to make >>> your own

Re: Dvdauthor and dvdbackup

2022-12-18 Thread Bill C
When I say acceptable size I mean an MP4. On Sun, Dec 18, 2022, 2:14 PM Bill C wrote: > I notice a DVD, or ISO that has special features usually is converted to a > much smaller acceptable size with just a feature. Something is being done > there, I hope that makes sense. > > On Sun, Dec 18,

Re: Dvdauthor and dvdbackup

2022-12-18 Thread Bill C
I notice a DVD, or ISO that has special features usually is converted to a much smaller acceptable size with just a feature. Something is being done there, I hope that makes sense. On Sun, Dec 18, 2022, 3:39 AM Tim via users wrote: > On Sat, 2022-12-17 at 23:27 -0500, Bill C wrote: > > I tried

Re: Dvdauthor and dvdbackup

2022-12-18 Thread Bill C
If I have only the "movie" , no special features, an MP4 or mkv is the way to go. I try to save an MP4 that way. Six to seven hundred meg's is better than 7 gig. I have read that dvdauthor created an "index" whatever that is. On Sun, Dec 18, 2022, 3:39 AM Tim via users wrote: > On Sat,

Re: Fedora37: Fails to boot with NISDOMAIN=... in /etc/sysconfig/network

2022-12-18 Thread Roger Heflin
If the nisdomain is not responding, I would claim the system should still boot, so I would think that is a bug. But if systemd/pam is not timing out on the non-responding nisdomain or the timeout is too high then I would think that might screw up a significant part of the system because lookups

Fedora37: Fails to boot with NISDOMAIN=... in /etc/sysconfig/network

2022-12-18 Thread Terry Barnaby
A strange one this. I was just updating a Fedora35 server to Fedora37, using a full reinstall and then copying configuration files from the old system. The system failed to boot with lots of strange issues with systemd. It started with console messages like: [ TIME ] Timeout waiting for

Re: Tip: how to make your own resolv.conf

2022-12-18 Thread Roger Heflin
>From what I can tell they developers expect everyone to do the config in exactly one way. If you do the config differently (ie the old way, and if dns is not configured/defined I assume from dhcp and/or directly in the Network manager config), then the software rewrites the file with a valid

Re: need perm. fix for monitor/display problem.

2022-12-18 Thread John Pilkington
On 17/12/2022 22:38, Barry wrote: On 17 Dec 2022, at 17:47, home user wrote: On 12/17/22 10:15 AM, John Pilkington wrote: I run it in a konsole (KDE terminal) tab and see a screenful of data refreshed every 10 seconds. Mainly the interest here is on jobs run by user akmods. For me

Re: Dvdauthor and dvdbackup

2022-12-18 Thread Tim via users
On Sat, 2022-12-17 at 23:27 -0500, Bill C wrote: > I tried to copy just the "feature" vobs and such from a DVD iso > using dvdbackup and I didn't know if anything needed to be done using > dvdauthor. I have kind of given up on the iso to MP4 idea, though I > know it can be done. Would an index

Re: Tip: how to make your own resolv.conf

2022-12-18 Thread ToddAndMargo via users
On 12/17/22 19:24, Tim via users wrote: On Sat, 2022-12-17 at 16:38 -0800, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: If you are tired of all the bugs and Micky Mouse surrounding /etc/resolv.conf, here is how to make your own that Micky can't alter: What I don't get is *why* it does this interference when