Re: [SLE] Sound in Linux
Hi Sam On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Sam Carleton wrote:
Ok, I have SuSE 6.2 running on two boxes at home. One is my main box that has a sound card in it. I am running the fvwm2 window manager, not KDE. Is there sound support for fvwm2? Other then games, is there any real reason to install sound support?
I got sound running on my machine at home last night. I don't have much (translate: any) experience with fvwm2 (running Window Maker) but I wanted sound to play MP3s and RM files. As such I haven't configured sound for Window Maker because it's damn annoying. I think it all comes down to personal preference. If you have a use for sound then go for it. Otherwise having something running that's taking up system resource can be all bad. My home machine is a workstation, not a server and I want it to do most things that Windoze can do, except do it in a very stable fashion =) Cheers Matt -- Matt Wong matt.wong@intelligroup.co.nz Senior Basis Consultant Intelligroup New Zealand Mobile: +64 25 710 233 http://www.intelligroup.com -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
Hi there. I've been reading man pages for a while now, but I've never understood what the portion in parenthesis - like in apache(3) - represents. My initial thought was that it's a section reference in the relevant manpage.. If it is, then call me an idiot for asking. Can someone provide a solution? I've raced throught the Man mini-howto, but it doesn't explicitly state what this is (ok, someone tell me i'm illiterate...) Regards, Jason. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
Jason wrote:
Hi there.
I've been reading man pages for a while now, but I've never understood what the portion in parenthesis - like in apache(3) - represents.
Try the obvious: man man - it's the section number of the man-system.
From man man: The table below shows the section numbers of the manual followed by the types of pages they contain.
1 Executable programs or shell commands 2 System calls (functions provided by the kernel) 3 Library calls (functions within system libraries) 4 Special files (usually found in /dev) 5 File formats and conventions eg /etc/passwd 6 Games 7 Macro packages and conventions eg man(7), groff(7). 8 System administration commands (usually only for root) 9 Kernel routines [Non standard]
Ralf -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
Jason wrote:
Hi there.
I've been reading man pages for a while now, but I've never understood what the portion in parenthesis - like in apache(3) - represents.
Try the obvious: man man - it's the section number of the man-system.
I tried the obvious, but my 'man man' don't show me that! But, thanks for that info.. Regards, Jason. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
the man pages are split into 9 basic sections. the sections define what type of man page it is. ections are as follows: 1 Commands 2 System calls 3 Library calls 4 Special files (/dev's) 5 File formats and conventions (config files) 6 Games 7 Macro packages and conventions 8 System management commands 9 Kernel routines ok, so why? example is "smbpasswd". smbpasswd is both a command, and a config/passwd file. "man 8 smbpasswd" loads the man page for the command, while "man 5 smbpasswd" load the man page for the passwd file of the same name. all this and more can be found with "man man"..:) Long Live Man Pages!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! -- ======================================================================== Rocky McGaugh Atipa Linux Solutions Product Development www.atipa.com rocky@smluc.org rmcgaugh@atipa.com ======================================================================== On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, Jason wrote:
Hi there.
I've been reading man pages for a while now, but I've never understood what the portion in parenthesis - like in apache(3) - represents. My initial thought was that it's a section reference in the relevant manpage.. If it is, then call me an idiot for asking.
Can someone provide a solution? I've raced throught the Man mini-howto, but it doesn't explicitly state what this is (ok, someone tell me i'm illiterate...)
Regards, Jason.
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Rocky McGaugh wrote: ...
example is "smbpasswd". smbpasswd is both a command, and a config/passwd file.
"man 8 smbpasswd" loads the man page for the command, while "man 5 smbpasswd" load the man page for the passwd file of the same name.
all this and more can be found with "man man"..:)
Long Live Man Pages!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
exactly. It's usual to get the one of the two you don't want. ;-) again, "man man" tells that "man -a xxxx" will display *all* manpages. Helpful, if you have national language man pages installed. If you sort the MANPATH properly, german man pages come first. (if existent) I use an alias man="man -a" for this... Juergen -- =========================================== __ _ Juergen Braukmann juergen.braukmann@gmx.de| -o)/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ Tel: 0201-743648 dk4jb@db0qs.#nrw.deu.eu | /\\ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / ===========================================_\_v __/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
Hi there. Ok, i'm lazy, so that's why i'm asking. But is there a way of determing the number of msgs retreived by fetchmail. I'm trying to make the 'You have new mail' msg more informative, to something like 'You have 520 new messages' (always the case for me..) But this issue i'm fine with.. Regards, Jason. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
On Mon, 24 Apr 2000 19:43:11 +0000 (UTC), you wrote:
Hi there.
Ok, i'm lazy, so that's why i'm asking. But is there a way of determing the number of msgs retreived by fetchmail.
Well on my version of fetchmail as it is running in console mode is says "retrieving XX message of YY messages from myemailaddress@myhome.net Is your fetchmail running as a daemon, so that you are not seeing these messages? Perhaps there is a logfile somewhere that you can read. -- Stuart Hall Cheshire, Connecticut, USA Linux User# 141732 -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, Stuart Hall wrote:
On Mon, 24 Apr 2000 19:43:11 +0000 (UTC), Jason wrote:
Hi there.
Ok, i'm lazy, so that's why i'm asking. But is there a way of determing the number of msgs retreived by fetchmail.
Well on my version of fetchmail as it is running in console mode is says "retrieving XX message of YY messages from myemailaddress@myhome.net
Is your fetchmail running as a daemon, so that you are not seeing these messages? Perhaps there is a logfile somewhere that you can read.
Using fetchmailconf (try expert mode) you can have a logfile while
running in daemon mode.
Or just add a line in your .fetchmailrc that says"
et logfile "/home/<username>/fetchmail.log"
Your choice of how to read it. I use xlogmaster to view a bunch of
different logs.
-Marc
On Mon, Apr 24, 2000 at 05:07:55PM -0400, Marc Gordon wrote:
On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, Stuart Hall wrote:
On Mon, 24 Apr 2000 19:43:11 +0000 (UTC), Jason wrote:
Hi there.
Ok, i'm lazy, so that's why i'm asking. But is there a way of determing the number of msgs retreived by fetchmail.
I use the fetchmail "log" feature, then read the resultant log file using Perl, and display the results using Perl/Tk, with a count of messages for each mailbox folder. Clicking on a folder invokes Mutt on that folder. Another quick and dirty counter mechanism, if you're using procmail, is to write a character to a file for each message received, then use a file length test to display the number of new messages. The count file can be zeroed when the count is displayed. In my Perl/Tk widget I use this to display the number of new messages received. My procmail rule to do this is: # count all incoming messages :0c | cat > /dev/null && echo -n . >> $HOME/.newmailcount ... which is probably not the most efficient scheme, but does the job. If anyone is interested in this (and assuming you've installed Perl/Tk) I'd be happy to send the code, but the ideas behind it are pretty simple. Ken -- Ken Irving Trident Software jkirving@mosquitonet.com -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/
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