[sclug] Re: sclug Digest, Vol 17, Issue 7

Wed Feb 9 19:30:24 UTC 2005

Thanks for all the advice everyone. I've installed gnump3d, and that 
works okay on my own machine so I'm going to try it remotely in the next 
few days. Installation and configuration was a snap, so that's a good start.

Neil.

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>   1. Re: Streaming audio (Taiyo Rawle)
>   2. cronicles (Simon Heywood)
>   3. Re: cronicles (Simon Huggins)
>   4. Re: cronicles (Tom Dawes-Gamble)
>   5. Re: cronicles (Simon Heywood)
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> Subject:
> Re: [sclug] Streaming audio
> From:
> Taiyo Rawle <taiyo_rawle at yahoo.co.uk>
> Date:
> Tue, 8 Feb 2005 13:50:37 +0000 (GMT)
> To:
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> To:
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> --- Leon Ward <leon at countersnipe.com> wrote: 
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>
>>Morning all
>>
>>On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 10:20 +0000, James Wyper
>>wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>Set up a very simple web page on your server with
>>>      
>>>
>>a link to an mp3 /
>>    
>>
>>>ogg file (you might want to try both to see
>>>      
>>>
>>subjectively which sounds
>>    
>>
>>>better) somewhere on your machine that's
>>>      
>>>
>>accessible from apache (under
>>
>>I use a simple package called gnump3d, its a breeze
>>to set up and not
>>too bad to work with. I suggest you take a quick
>>look at the following
>>link...
>>
>>http://www.gnu.org/software/gnump3d/
>>
>>-Leon
>>    
>>
>
>There is Icecast and Ices, a shoutcast-like streaming
>server at http://www.icecast.org/
>
>It worked for me when I installed from source, and the
>configuration isn't too dificault as it's through XML
>files...
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> Subject:
> [sclug] cronicles
> From:
> Simon Heywood <simon at triv.org.uk>
> Date:
> Tue, 8 Feb 2005 14:09:29 +0000
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>On Tue,  8 Feb 2005 at 10:00:02 +0000, Simon Heywood wrote:
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>
>>The next meeting of the SCLUG will be at the Back of Beyond pub in 
>>King's Road, Reading, at 19:30 this Wednesday.
>>    
>>
>
>Sorry, that would be me not reading crontab(5) properly:
>
># Send the SCLUG meeting reminder on the Monday before the
># second Wednesday of each month at 10:00.
>0 10 6-12 * 1  $HOME/bin/sclug-reminder
>
>Am I right in thinking that this can't be done directly with cron?
>
>S.
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> Subject:
> Re: [sclug] cronicles
> From:
> Simon Huggins <huggie at earth.li>
> Date:
> Tue, 8 Feb 2005 15:02:10 +0000
> To:
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> To:
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>On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 02:09:29PM +0000, Simon Heywood wrote:
>  
>
>>On Tue,  8 Feb 2005 at 10:00:02 +0000, Simon Heywood wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>The next meeting of the SCLUG will be at the Back of Beyond pub in 
>>>King's Road, Reading, at 19:30 this Wednesday.
>>>      
>>>
>>Sorry, that would be me not reading crontab(5) properly:
>># Send the SCLUG meeting reminder on the Monday before the
>># second Wednesday of each month at 10:00.
>>0 10 6-12 * 1  $HOME/bin/sclug-reminder
>>    
>>
>
>  
>
>>Am I right in thinking that this can't be done directly with cron?
>>    
>>
>
>Doesn't look like it.  The manpage says when either day of month or day
>of week matches it'll be run.
>
>Can't you run it every day and get perl or something to check if it's
>the right one?
>
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> Subject:
> Re: [sclug] cronicles
> From:
> Tom Dawes-Gamble <tmdg at tmdg.co.uk>
> Date:
> Tue, 08 Feb 2005 15:20:09 +0000
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>On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 14:09 +0000, Simon Heywood wrote:
>  
>
>>On Tue,  8 Feb 2005 at 10:00:02 +0000, Simon Heywood wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>The next meeting of the SCLUG will be at the Back of Beyond pub in 
>>>King's Road, Reading, at 19:30 this Wednesday.
>>>      
>>>
>>Sorry, that would be me not reading crontab(5) properly:
>>
>># Send the SCLUG meeting reminder on the Monday before the
>># second Wednesday of each month at 10:00.
>>0 10 6-12 * 1  $HOME/bin/sclug-reminder
>>
>>Am I right in thinking that this can't be done directly with cron?
>>
>>    
>>
>
>Hi Simon,
>
>Correct you need to add some tests.  
>
>Your cron there says,   Run on the 6,7,8,9,10,11 and 12th of the month
>AND every Monday.
>
>I used to run the cron job every Sunday it on and did the following
>test.
>
>#! /bin/sh
>
>today=$(date +%d)
>today=${today#0}  
>
>if (( $today < 5  ))
>then
>        exit;
>fi
>if (( $today > 11 ))
>then
>        exit
>fi
>
>(( nextmeet = today + 3 ))
>
>mon=$(date +"%B %Y")
>
>mail -s "SCLUG Meeting this Wednesday $nextmeet $mon at 19:30"
>sclug at sclug.org.uk  << EOF
>
>Tom.
>
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> Subject:
> Re: [sclug] cronicles
> From:
> Simon Heywood <simon at triv.org.uk>
> Date:
> Tue, 8 Feb 2005 16:56:18 +0000
> To:
> sclug at sclug.org.uk
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> To:
> sclug at sclug.org.uk
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>
>On Tue,  8 Feb 2005 at 15:02:10 +0000, Simon Huggins wrote:
>  
>
>>On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 02:09:29PM +0000, Simon Heywood wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>Sorry, that would be me not reading crontab(5) properly:
>>># Send the SCLUG meeting reminder on the Monday before the
>>># second Wednesday of each month at 10:00.
>>>0 10 6-12 * 1  $HOME/bin/sclug-reminder
>>>
>>>Am I right in thinking that this can't be done directly with cron?
>>>      
>>>
>>Doesn't look like it.  The manpage says when either day of month or day
>>of week matches it'll be run.
>>    
>>
>
>Yes. I was convinced I'd read otherwise somewhere, but I must've been
>hallucinating. It does seem like a rather bad limitation of cron,
>though.
>
>  
>
>>Can't you run it every day and get perl or something to check if it's
>>the right one?
>>    
>>
>
>A weekly check should suffice, even if it's a little inelegant. I'll
>probably pinch some of the code that Tom posted. (Thanks, Tom!)
>
>S.
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