RE: How to handle passing filenames with spaces and wildcards int o bash scripts?
by Styma, Robert E (Robert)
Thanks in advance for any hints/help/pointers/tricks that you can provide.
/Mike
Try using $@ in place of $*
For example, consider the script:
echo $#
echo $@
for i in "$@"
do
echo $i
done
######################
say the script was called /tmp/zzzz
run /tmp/zzzz test1 test2 "test3 test4"
$# should be 3
and the output should be
test1
test2
test3 test4
Hope this helps
18 years, 3 months
Apache 1.3 compile error
by joe＠infinicityplc.com
Hi, Everyone,
I have a Fedora Core 4 installation and I'm trying to install PHP 5
statically with
Apache-1.3.34. However, after running ./configure on Apache, make fails
with the following error output:
===> src/modules/php5
make[4]: *** No rule to make target `all'. Stop.
make[3]: *** [all] Error 1
make[2]: *** [subdirs] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/apache_1.3.34/src'
make[1]: *** [build-std] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/local/apache_1.3.34'
make: *** [build] Error 2
PHP seems to install without a problem. I'd really appreciate it if
someone could kindly give me an idea what's happening here or what I
might be doing wrong. Thanks.
Joe
18 years, 3 months
BRLTTY
by Chris Norman
Hi people,
Does anyone know how to get brltty to talk all the time using festival? I'm
running FC4, and have brltty and festival installed, however, the command:
brltty -b bn -s fv
doesn't do anything.
Cheers,
Chris Norman
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18 years, 3 months
Disk Problems
by Wojciech Komornicki
I rebooted my FC4 installation only to find that it hung after loading
all the packages. I went into rescue mode and running fsck on
/dev/sys
I am told that I have a bad boot sector or that the file system is not
an ext2 file system. Since I can mount the disk under /mnt/sysimage am
I running fsck on the wrong file system?
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18 years, 3 months
System Crash Troubleshooting
by Tim Alberts
I have a problem with system crash/lockups. I've been running Linux for several years and have seen this problem time and time again. The system log messages at the end of this mail show what I am asking about. I have several times in the past had a box running and after some time of stable operation, the system will start locking up. Rebooting usually gets the thing running for a couple hours. However, the problem never goes away, I have to re-install the OS. I have never been able to diagnose the problem. The only thing that seems consistent is the system messages below. Unfortunately, these messages can run for weeks before the system actually becomes unstable and starts locking up so I never thought much of these messages.
My general question is, do the messages below indicate a problem that can be the cause of my system crash/lockups. If so, how do I start troubleshooting this?
Also, as shown in the logs below, the process crond was opening and closing sessions. However, it appears something happened with init and/or xinetd that caused crond to stop logging sessions for user root. I don't get the sessions for root anymore (I do still get the sessions for postgres), what could have happened?
Note that I am not running PostgreSQL server so I don't know what could possibly have permission/access to open a session for it?
My guess is that my system has been hacked/infected and this is a virus of some kind.
..
Feb 12 04:05:06 msi2 crond(pam_unix)[9463]: session closed for user root
Feb 12 04:10:01 msi2 crond(pam_unix)[9539]: session opened for user root by (uid=0)
Feb 12 04:10:01 msi2 crond(pam_unix)[9541]: session opened for user root by (uid=0)
Feb 12 04:10:01 msi2 crond(pam_unix)[9540]: session opened for user root by (uid=0)
Feb 12 04:10:02 msi2 crond(pam_unix)[9540]: session closed for user root
Feb 12 04:10:02 msi2 crond(pam_unix)[9539]: session closed for user root
..
Feb 14 17:05:01 msi2 crond(pam_unix)[2468]: session opened for user root by (uid=0)
Feb 14 17:05:01 msi2 crond(pam_unix)[2469]: session opened for user root by (uid=0)
Feb 14 17:05:02 msi2 crond(pam_unix)[2468]: session closed for user root
Feb 14 17:05:03 msi2 su(pam_unix)[2496]: session opened for user postgres by (uid=0)
Feb 14 17:05:03 msi2 su(pam_unix)[2496]: session closed for user postgres
Feb 14 17:05:04 msi2 crond(pam_unix)[2469]: session closed for user root
Feb 14 17:09:03 msi2 ntpd[2362]: synchronized to 212.79.244.34, stratum 2
Feb 14 17:09:55 msi2 kernel: loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
Feb 14 17:10:01 msi2 crond(pam_unix)[2608]: session opened for user root by (uid=0)
Feb 14 17:10:01 msi2 crond(pam_unix)[2609]: session opened for user root by (uid=0)
Feb 14 17:10:01 msi2 crond(pam_unix)[2610]: session opened for user root by (uid=0)
Feb 14 17:10:02 msi2 crond(pam_unix)[2609]: session closed for user root
Feb 14 17:10:03 msi2 crond(pam_unix)[2608]: session closed for user root
Feb 14 17:10:06 msi2 su(pam_unix)[2648]: session opened for user postgres by (uid=0)
Feb 14 17:10:06 msi2 su(pam_unix)[2648]: session closed for user postgres
Feb 14 17:10:08 msi2 crond(pam_unix)[2610]: session closed for user root
Feb 14 17:11:27 msi2 init: Trying to re-exec init
Feb 14 17:12:11 msi2 xinetd[2346]: Starting reconfiguration
Feb 14 17:12:12 msi2 xinetd[2346]: Swapping defaults
Feb 14 17:12:12 msi2 xinetd[2346]: Reconfigured: new=0 old=0 dropped=0 (services)
Feb 14 17:13:02 msi2 xinetd[2346]: Starting reconfiguration
Feb 14 17:13:02 msi2 xinetd[2346]: Swapping defaults
Feb 14 17:13:02 msi2 xinetd[2346]: Reconfigured: new=0 old=0 dropped=0 (services)
Feb 14 17:13:48 msi2 named[2012]: client 192.168.0.2#32777: update 'inside.msi/IN' denied
Feb 14 17:13:48 msi2 dhcpd: if RWPowerBookG4.inside.msi IN A rrset doesn't exist add RWPowerBookG4.inside.msi 43200 IN A 192.168.0.177: timed out.
Feb 14 17:13:48 msi2 dhcpd: Wrote 40 leases to leases file.
Feb 14 17:13:48 msi2 dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 192.168.0.177 from 00:14:51:28:d6:a2 (RWPowerBookG4) via eth1
Feb 14 17:13:48 msi2 dhcpd: DHCPACK on 192.168.0.177 to 00:14:51:28:d6:a2 (RWPowerBookG4) via eth1
Feb 14 17:15:05 msi2 su(pam_unix)[3822]: session opened for user postgres by (uid=0)
Feb 14 17:15:06 msi2 su(pam_unix)[3822]: session closed for user postgres
Feb 14 17:20:03 msi2 su(pam_unix)[3882]: session opened for user postgres by (uid=0)
Feb 14 17:20:03 msi2 su(pam_unix)[3882]: session closed for user postgres
..
Feb 26 06:15:04 msi2 su(pam_unix)[20826]: session closed for user postgres
Feb 26 06:20:03 msi2 su(pam_unix)[20886]: session opened for user postgres by (uid=0)
Feb 26 06:20:03 msi2 su(pam_unix)[20886]: session closed for user postgres
Feb 26 06:25:03 msi2 su(pam_unix)[20943]: session opened for user postgres by (uid=0)
Feb 26 06:25:03 msi2 su(pam_unix)[20943]: session closed for user postgres
Feb 26 06:30:03 msi2 su(pam_unix)[21003]: session opened for user postgres by (uid=0)
Feb 26 06:30:03 msi2 su(pam_unix)[21003]: session closed for user postgres
Feb 26 06:35:03 msi2 su(pam_unix)[21062]: session opened for user postgres by (uid=0)
Feb 26 06:35:03 msi2 su(pam_unix)[21062]: session closed for user postgres
Feb 26 06:40:03 msi2 su(pam_unix)[21122]: session opened for user postgres by (uid=0)
Feb 26 06:40:03 msi2 su(pam_unix)[21122]: session closed for user postgres
Feb 26 06:45:03 msi2 su(pam_unix)[21179]: session opened for user postgres by (uid=0)
18 years, 3 months
SMART error and K3B issues
by Jean-Rene Cormier
Hi,
I have 2 things here that are bugging me a little bit, first one is I'm
starting to get some SMART errors in my logs. Just a bunch of these:
Device: /dev/hda, 1 Offline uncorrectable sectors
Should I be worried that my HD is gonna die soon?
Also second issue I have is with K3B, whenever it finishes to burn a DVD
I get an error saying that growisofs didn't finish cleanly and the log
don't say that anything is wrong.
Here's what the k3b log looks like:
System
-----------------------
K3b Version: 0.12.10
KDE Version: 3.5.1-0.1.fc4 Red Hat
QT Version: 3.3.4
Kernel: 2.6.15-1.1831_FC4
Devices
-----------------------
_NEC DVD_RW ND-3500AG 2.16 (/dev/hda, ) at /media/cdrecorder [CD-R;
CD-RW; CD-ROM; DVD-ROM; DVD-R; DVD-RW; DVD+R; DVD+RW; DVD+R DL]
[DVD-ROM; DVD-R Sequential; DVD-RW Restricted Overwrite; DVD-RW
Sequential; DVD+RW; DVD+R; DVD+R Double Layer; CD-ROM; CD-R; CD-RW]
[SAO; TAO; RAW; SAO/R96R; RAW/R96R; Restricted Overwrite]
Used versions
-----------------------
growisofs: 5.21
mkisofs: 2.1
growisofs
-----------------------
INFO: UTF-8 character encoding detected by locale settings.
Assuming UTF-8 encoded filenames on source filesystem,
use -input-charset to override.
/dev/hda: "Current Write Speed" is 4.1x1385KBps.
0.04% done, estimate finish Mon Feb 20 09:16:09 2006
A bunch of lines here.
99.99% done, estimate finish Sun Feb 19 20:17:17 2006
Total translation table size: 0
Total rockridge attributes bytes: 969
Total directory bytes: 0
Path table size(bytes): 10
Max brk space used 0
1205663 extents written (2354 MB)
/dev/hda: flushing cache
/dev/hda: closing track
/dev/hda: closing session
growisofs command:
-----------------------
/usr/bin/growisofs -Z /dev/hda -use-the-force-luke=notray
-use-the-force-luke=tty -speed=4 -gui -graft-points -volid K3b data
project -volset -appid K3B THE CD KREATOR (C) 1998-2005 SEBASTIAN TRUEG
AND THE K3B TEAM -publisher -preparer -sysid LINUX -volset-size 1
-volset-seqno 1 -sort /tmp/kde-root/k3bHxl2jc.tmp -rational-rock
-hide-list /tmp/kde-root/k3bbjDPlc.tmp -joliet
-hide-joliet-list /tmp/kde-root/k3bVDf2za.tmp -full-iso9660-filenames
-iso-level 2 -path-list /tmp/kde-root/k3bLI0UIa.tmp
And also when burning Video DVDs it doesn't use the -dvd-video option
and the DVD is then unreadable as a video DVD, I can read the data off
of it but it's not being recognized as a video DVD. Anybody ever had any
issues like these?
TIA
--
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18 years, 3 months
Learning Bash Questions: the MV command
by Dotan Cohen
I am trying to learn as I go with bash on a FC4 install. I need to do
two things that are confounding me:
1) I need to move all the photos from a huge, complex tree to one big
directory. Easy:
$ find . -name "*.jpg" -exec mv '{}' /home/dotancohen/big_directory \;
However, there are a few photos that have duplicate file names in
different directories. In this case, it overwrites. That is bad! I
tried adding the -i flag to prompt me, but it takes the next 'mv' as a
response to the prompt, and the next 'mv' fails. Is there a way to
have it not fail the next mv, yet not overwrite? Or better yet, in the
case of duplicate file names, to append something to the end of the
file name, so that it will not be duplicate? Of course, if _that_ file
name is taken, it should append something else, etc. Is this too
complex for Bash?
2) I will then be left with a huge tree with mostly empty directories.
I need to remove the empty directories, but leave those in place that
do contain files. Is there a way to check if a directory is populated
before 'rm'ing it? If the directory contains another directory that
_is_ empty, then of course they should both be deleted. Er, is this
possible?
Thank you in advance.
Dotan Cohen
18 years, 3 months
find and convert ogg to mp3
by Mick M.
Hello list;
I recently burned an audio CD with mp3 files.
My portable player played the first few tracks then barfed.
I *know* that all the files are mp3 so was surprised.
Upon investigation it turns out that soem of them were .ogg instead.
I used konqueror to convert them and chose .mp3 but got .ogg
[root@localhost ive_been_thinking_about_you]# ls -l *.mp3
-rw-rw-r-- 1 mick mick 6145448 Feb 7 15:34 def_12_mix.mp3
-rw-rw-r-- 1 mick mick 4182115 Feb 7 15:35 red_zone_mix.mp3
-rw-rw-r-- 1 mick mick 1364736 Feb 7 15:35 reprise.mp3
-rw-rw-r-- 1 mick mick 3710832 Feb 7 15:36 the_eclipse_mix.mp3
-rw-rw-r-- 1 mick mick 2742102 Feb 7 15:37 trak_mix.mp3
-rw-rw-r-- 1 mick mick 5216619 Feb 7 15:36 vocal_dub.mp3
When I run 'file' I get:
[root@localhost ive_been_thinking_about_you]# file *.mp3
def_12_mix.mp3: Ogg data, Vorbis audio, stereo, 44100 Hz, ~128000
bps, created by: Xiph.Org libVorbis I (1.1.0 RC1)
red_zone_mix.mp3: Ogg data, Vorbis audio, stereo, 44100 Hz, ~128000
bps, created by: Xiph.Org libVorbis I (1.1.0 RC1)
reprise.mp3: Ogg data, Vorbis audio, stereo, 44100 Hz, ~128000
bps, created by: Xiph.Org libVorbis I (1.1.0 RC1)
the_eclipse_mix.mp3: Ogg data, Vorbis audio, stereo, 44100 Hz, ~128000
bps, created by: Xiph.Org libVorbis I (1.1.0 RC1)
trak_mix.mp3: Ogg data, Vorbis audio, stereo, 44100 Hz, ~128000
bps, created by: Xiph.Org libVorbis I (1.1.0 RC1)
vocal_dub.mp3: Ogg data, Vorbis audio, stereo, 44100 Hz, ~128000
bps, created by: Xiph.Org libVorbis I (1.1.0 RC1)
[root@localhost ive_been_thinking_about_you]#
I have a lot of directories that *should* be .mp3.
How do I get 'file' to pickout the .ogg files?
Also how to convert them to .mp3?
Is this a bug in konqueror?
Mick M.
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18 years, 3 months
[FC4] System locks up when booting installation DVD
by Carsten Gaebler
Hi,
when I boot FC4 from the installation DVD, the boot messages read
Loading vmlinuz
Loading initrd.img
Ready
Then the screen becomes blank with a blinking cursor and the system is
locked up. The only thing I can do is reset the machine through the reset
button.
Any hints?
cg.
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18 years, 3 months
Conflict in Yum update
by Albert A. Modderkolk
Sometime ago, when I tried to update everything, I got a similar or the
same error as today:
Transaction Check Error: file /usr/share/man/man1/dvcont.1.gz from
install of libavc1394-0.5.1-0.2.fc4.rf conflicts with file from package
libavc1394-0.4.1-8
file /usr/bin/linkchecker from install of linkchecker-3.3-1.2.fc4.rf
conflicts with file from package linkchecker-3.3-1
I am running FC4 64-bit. What can I do to resolve this conflict?
Tia, Albert
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18 years, 3 months
