General Linux

Video files access from a Canon VIXIA HF S20 camcorder
On 05/22/2010 11:43 AM, Clark Smith wrote: I am trying to access video files from a Canon VIXIA HF S20 camcorder, so far without success. I can connect the camcorder to my Linux box by USB all right. The camcorder gets recognized without any problems; in fact, I can successfully retrieve still photos by... 23 May 2010 16:50

bash script
I have a bash script that outputs information like the following printf "Building --> ${i}: " That leaves the cursor position at the end of the line. I would like to position to the start of that line and then erase it so I can update it with the current progress so I get "a stack" them like this Building -... 11 Jun 2010 04:52

Unmounting a dead remote NFS system
I have an NFS partition P mounted locally from a remote machine. The problem is that the remote machine has died. When I do umount -f P I get a diagnostic whereby somebody is still using P. I try to find out who by means of fuser, and fuser hangs, apparently forever. How can I get rid of P without reboo... 25 May 2010 00:30

firefox and NSPlugin Wrapper (aka "flash")
Flash (specifically from the eyeclops site) locked up my browser so I couldn't change tabs, or do anything else. I tried killing the flash player app (npviewer.bin) and that did little to improve things. No longer was the site blinking in my window, but now firefox was dumping error messages to stderr (which goes t... 21 May 2010 18:19

Address a specific keyboard for IOCTL cmd execution for LED test
Hi, My setup has several keyboards of PS2/USB kind connected to the system. I have to blink LEDs of specific keyboard out of all connected Keyboards. I understand that dev node "/dev/console" addresses to the system's keyboard controller, which is shared by all keyboard connected. Is there any way to addre... 21 May 2010 11:41

Sendmail with csv-files
Hi, I have a long plain-text-file (200kb) with a mass-e-mailing: To: a(a)a.com Hi, its a nice day --- To: b(a)b.com Hi, its a nice day --- To: c(a)c.com Hi, its a nice day --- My aim is to use this as input for sendmail. It looks like spam, but it isn't -- its my curiculum vitae which i wanna send to 20 corp... 9 Jun 2010 14:11

tv card not detected; new motherboard [updated]
On Thu, 20 May 2010 15:49:49 +0100, White Spirit wrote: On 19/05/2010 08:44, The Natural Philosopher wrote: Ive got hauppage dvb usb working here in UK with very little effort. I have the WinTV-NovaT stick and it works perfectly. I use Kaffeine and it's excellent. here is an update: I took... 21 May 2010 01:55

bash script error
I have a problem with the following bashscript, it is called from another script like this: #!/bin/bash -e set +h LFS="/mnt/lfs" CWD=$(pwd) SCRIPTS=${0%/*} STAMPS="${CWD}/Stamps" LOGS="${CWD}/Logs" PREPARE="create.lfs.tools add.lfs.user set.environment rsync.files" export LFS CWD SCRIPTS STAMPS LOGS PREPARE... 20 May 2010 05:08

sadc system activity collector missing from slackware 13
Hi I have a Slackware 13.0 install which is missing the sadc, sa1 and sa2 activity collection programs though it has got sar and sadf. Does anyone know why these are not installed by default and where I can get them from? Thanks for any help B2003 ... 19 May 2010 09:19

How do I drop to shell from rescue CD???
I have a kernel panic and need to fix a typo. I don't have the install disks, and I just want to use the CD to access the shell prompt so I can run the commands need. I can't get to the grub boot loader screen. Anyway, I run this and it asks for linux or linux text, and no matter what I do, I can't just have it l... 27 May 2010 18:08