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Actually, were I you, I'd rather change the "umask=0022" bit to "umask=0007,gid=NNN" where NNN is the group id where all users that must have read-write belong; others will not even have read access.

Many thanks, Yves, that worked well.

Just one extra thing; is it possible to apply the fstat-contents without having to reboot? Thanks again.

mdv2008 mounts win_c and win_d as write-protected, as opposed to mdv2006 which mounts them as read/write. Is it safe to replace the 2008 /etc/fstat entries

/dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c vfat umask=0022,iocharset=utf8 0 0
/dev/hda5 /mnt/win_d vfat umask=0022,iocharset=utf8 0 0

with those from 2006

/dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c vfat umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0
/dev/hda5 /mnt/win_d vfat umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0

or has something else changed between 2006 and 2008? Sorry for this (possibly daft :unsure: ) question, but I'm always a bit chary about messing around with mount-attributes. Thanks.

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What is the file system used on /media/hd/Tmp_mdv2008? Not all file systems have case-sensitive capability.

Good point. The target-filesystem is, in fact, FAT32. However, I still don't understand why only that directory-name should have been corrupted; surely not by the FAT32 structure? :unsure: And apart from that, why did the cli 'cp -R' work, but not konqueror?

I did as you suggested

cp -R /home/lawrence/zqstore/ /media/hd/Tmp_mdv2008

which worked correctly. I then deleted the result, i.e. the entire directory below 'Tmp_mdv2008', and tried to drag&drop with konqueror again; this time it set up the top-level directory-structure correctly but crashed with the message

Could not make folder /media/hd/Tmp_mdv2008/zqstore/U3A/General_Forms_etc.

Now, there's something interesting here; the source-directory is called '/home/lawrence/zqstore/U3A' (uppercase 'U', (uppercase 'A') and the target-directory is called '/media/hd/Tmp_mdv2008/zqstore/u3a' (lowercase 'u' (lowercase 'a'). No wonder the directory 'U3A' couldn't be found. :unsure: How can this happen? I've always assumed that all names in linux were case-sensitive.

As far as I can see, no other directory-names were corrupted in this way.

Occasionally, when I try to copy a large number of directories using drag&drop, konqueror completely loses the plot and creates an entirely different structure on the target-device. I then have to delete the target-structure and copy each directory individually , which works. It seems that the structure's complexity determines the degree to which konqueror becomes confused. Is this a known problem and, if so, is there a way around it? A different file-manager, perhaps? Thanks.

Forgot to say that this is in 2008. :huh:

I stumbled across the following on http://www.webservertalk.com/message1585326.html ; and it does exactly what I need. : :P

ord()
{
if [[ $1 ]]
then
 echo "$(od -td1 <<<"$1" | awk 'NR==1{print $2}')"
else
 exit 1
fi
}

for i
do
 for ((j=0; j < ${#i}; ++j))
 do
ch=${i:$j:1}
dec=$(ord "$ch")
echo -e "char: '$ch'\t ord: $dec"
 done
done

Great stuff.

I'd like to download an entire web-site for off-line perusal. Have, in fact, found many apps for doing this (e.g. Web Dumper, A1 Website Download), unfortunately all for Windoze. :sad: Can anyone help me out? Thanks.

Yes, neddie, that is what I wanted and your suggestion does only return the character, steve. Thanks, nevertheless.

As it happens, I've managed to solve my problem another way, so knowing the value is unimportant. What is bugging me at the moment is the following:

I want to return one of three possible values from a script back to its caller, using "return result_value" but get the message

can only `return' from a function or sourced script

Can one of you tell me what "sourced script" means, and, possibly, how to overcome the problem. Thanks

Well, I'd prefer not to (possibly) destroy the currently-operating wengo, so I'll try your suggestion on another 2008-installation. B)

And, I've discovered - from wengophone user's forum - that the contacts-data are stored in:

home/username/.wengophone/profiles/your_email@your_isp/contactlist.xml

Many thanks for your help.

I'd like to echo the interger-value of single characters entered via stdin; in pascal I'd write something like:

print int(inchar)

but I can't find the bash-script equivalent of 'int'. Can anyone help? Thanks.

See if this post helps. Sound Juicer is able to do stereo, but may not be set up correctly.

Yes, that was the problem, now all is OK. Many thanks

Can anyone recommend a CD-ripper; I've tried Sound Juicer but it only appears to rip to mono :unsure:. Thanks

Well, I took your advice, Greg, and installed 2008 (with only a few problems), and pcmcia hot-swap now works. Thanks.

Interestingly, I've been experimenting with the hot-swap and have discovered that, if I exchange the two pcmcia-cards, the system automatically remounts hde1 (external hdd) but, when it attempts to remount the zip-drive, this fails with the message

mount: you must specify the filesystem type

and I have to mount it manually (using KFreeDisk). Strange? :huh:

Anyway, problem solved. Thanks to all who helped. :thumbs:

Yes, find -ls does exactly what I want. Many thanks to you both

MDK 10.1 was using LILO, while currently grub is used. They work in a very different way.

Could have been 10.2 then :unsure: or even 2005; memory is not serving me so well these days, long time ago ;)

Well, I'm not quite sure what's going on, but (despite the tar.bz2's name) there's no bin in the target-directory, in fact there's not a *weng*.bin on the entire partition. The only executable file is called "qtwengophone" but when I ran ./qtwengophone from the target-directory I got

./qtwengophone: error while loading shared libraries: libboost_program_options-gcc-mt-1_33_1.so.1.33.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

So... I gave up on that one, took your advice and installed the older version (2.1.0 rc2); that seems to work. Many thanks. :thumbs:

One slight problem, though; the contact-numbers that I had set up in mdv2006 have disappeared, which leads me to suspect that they are stored locally (not externally, as with skype). Is this truely the case and, if so, do you happen to know where they are kept? Thanks, again.

Many thanks, tyme, 2006 is now back on-line.

The grub structure on this hdd stems from the bad old days ;) of mdk10.1, when, if I remember correctly, I had difficulty booting directly into a partition and had to use the indirect method. This is ESSENTIAL, BTW, when booting Windoze (at least, in my box it is). I've remained with it, since it has always worked, but now is probably the time for a reassessment. Once again, many thanks.

I've just downloaded WengoPhone-2.1.2-linux-bin-x86.tar.bz2 from http://www.openwengo.org/index.php/openwen...jectsNgDownload

and untarred it as described in the FAQ "How do I install tar.gz's and RPM's?". Assuming that I had to follow the configure/make/....etc procedure I started with './configure' and was rewarded with

bash: ./configure: No such file or directory

Sure enough. there's no 'configure' in the generated directory, so I searched for a '.bin'; no luck there, either. Assume that I'm doing something wrong. :unsure: Could someone help me out? Thanks.

BTW, I'm not using the wengo on the DVD because it keeeps crashing on start-up.

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My audio-system snaps and crackles permanantly in 2008 (didn't do it in 2006); apparently this is nothing new. Despite this, it plays well (using audacity, anyway). Some work-arounds do exist, I understand; could someone point me to where they are? Thanks.

Edit: my Tosh Sat Pro 4600 uses an Intel ‎82801BA/BAM AC'97 Audio Controller, the driver-module is ‎snd_intel8x0.

Sadly, it didn't. However, with a space separator it did: [0-9 \-]. Thanks

Chances are the grub being used is the one in the 2008 install, so we'd need to see the /boot/grub/menu.lst from 2008 to figure out what's wrong.

Here it is:

timeout 10
color black/cyan yellow/cyan
gfxmenu (hd0,6)/boot/gfxmenu
default 0

title mdv2008
kernel (hd0,6)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=mdv2008 root=/dev/hda7  resume=/dev/hda6 splash=silent vga=788
initrd (hd0,6)/boot/initrd.img

title mdv2008-nonfb
kernel (hd0,6)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=mdv2008-nonfb root=/dev/hda7  resume=/dev/hda6
initrd (hd0,6)/boot/initrd.img

title failsafe
kernel (hd0,6)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=failsafe root=/dev/hda7  failsafe
initrd (hd0,6)/boot/initrd.img

title windows
root (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1

However, this may not be the significant one. Its grub-loader is in block 0 of THE SAME partition (hda7). The menu.lst used by the loader in the MBR is on hda8 (le2005); this contains:

timeout 20
default 3 

title linux 2005
kernel (hd0,7)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda8 acpi=ht resume=/dev/hda6 splash=silent vga=788
initrd (hd0,7)/boot/initrd.img

title linux-nonfb
kernel (hd0,7)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda8 splash=silent acpi=ht resume=/dev/hda6
initrd (hd0,7)/boot/initrd.img

title failsafe
kernel (hd0,7)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda8 failsafe splash=silent acpi=ht resume=/dev/hda6 devfs=nomount
initrd (hd0,7)/boot/initrd.img

title linux mva2008
root (hd0,6)
chainloader +1

title linux 2006
root (hd0,8)
chainloader +1

title windows
root (hd0,0)
chainloader +1

It all looks OK to me.

BTW le2005 still boots correctly, using lilo

Since installation of mva2008 I can no longer boot into mva2006 . I select 2006 from the grub-menu and am presented with a grub prompt; haven't got a clue what to do with that. As far as I can see, 2006 is still intact, so why it refuses to boot is a mystery. The /boot/grub/menu.lst on the 2006-partition contains

timeout 10
shade 1
viewport 3 2 77 22
splashimage (hd0,8)/boot/grub/mdv-grub_splash.xpm.gz
default 0

title linux-2006
kernel (hd0,8)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda9 acpi=ht resume=/dev/hda6 splash=silent vga=788
initrd (hd0,8)/boot/initrd.img

title linux-nonfb-2006
kernel (hd0,8)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda9 acpi=ht resume=/dev/hda6
initrd (hd0,8)/boot/initrd.img

title failsafe-2006
kernel (hd0,8)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda9 failsafe acpi=ht resume=/dev/hda6
initrd (hd0,8)/boot/initrd.img

title windows
root (hd0,0)
chainloader +1

Can anyone help me out in restoring boot to this partition? Thanks.

BTW, I've noticed a script /mnt/mva2006/boot/grub/install.sh; is it safe to run that FROM 2008, or is it likely to render 2008 unbootable?

I'm trying to write an sed script, which needs a "-" (dash) inside the range of characters i.e. a range of 0 to 9 [0-9] PLUS the dash. I've tried [0-9\-] but sed complains and ignores the entire line. Could anyone help me out? Thanks

Is there a utility which will list the contents of a directory/sub-dir in fully-qualified form, i.e. like ls -R (but with the dir-name included). Thanks.

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Oops, have to go back a step. :huh: On the partition which I've now mounted onto my ~/home directory there is a root-directory '/lost+found'; this causes the backup-script (found at http://linuxgazette.net/issue47/pollman.html) to crash. I've tried using the -X option in tar to exclude the directory from the backup, but tar still crashes. Perhaps I've misunderstood the -X option or there's an easier way of overcoming this problem Any tips, anyone? Thanks.