procmail script question

2001-11-11 Thread Lang Hurst
I use the following procmail script to make festival speak the FROM and SUBJECT headings of new email through my speakers: SUBJECT=`formail -xSubject: \ | expand | sed -e 's/^[ ]*//g' -e 's/[ ]*$//g'` SENDER=`formail -xFrom: \ | expand | sed -e 's/^[ ]*//g' -e 's/[ ]*$//g'` :0c | echo "New mail f

vsound and echo

2001-11-09 Thread Lang Hurst
I recently installed vsound with the intent of burning old episodes of This American Life onto a couple of CD's for a road trip. It installed with no problems, but when I record it has a really strong unwanted echo. RealPlayer works fine, but the echo happens in the redirect. Here is the info

procmail script question

2001-07-22 Thread Lang Hurst
I use the following procmail script to make festival speak the FROM and SUBJECT headings of new email through my speakers: SUBJECT=`formail -xSubject: \ | expand | sed -e 's/^[ ]*//g' -e 's/[ ]*$//g'` SENDER=`formail -xFrom: \ | expand | sed -e 's/^[ ]*//g' -e 's/[ ]*$//g'` :0c | echo "New mail f

user=halt=halt, user=reboot=halt?

2001-04-19 Thread Lang Hurst
Hello, I added users to halt and reboot, respectively, by making the formers login shell /sbin/halt and the latter's /sbin/reboot. If I login as the halt user, the system shuts down and powers off. Great. When I login as the reboot user, the system shuts down and powers off. Not what I wanted.

Ogg Vorbis-Potato

2001-03-20 Thread Lang Hurst
Good day all. I'm running a pretty straight 2.2.r2 release. I would like to install all the Ogg Vorbis stuff and start encoding my CD's, but I don't want to upgrade to Woody yet, as the two times I have tried my system became, as the deb states, unstable. Is there a way to install Ogg Vorbis on