From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 17 19:09:01 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A6CF106564A for ; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:09:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from aristotle.thought.org (aristotle.thought.org [209.180.213.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95BF18FC1D for ; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:09:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from thought.org (tao.thought.org [10.47.0.250]) (authenticated bits=0) by aristotle.thought.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m6HJ96JT098490; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:09:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: by thought.org (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1002 kline@thought.org; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:08:59 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:08:59 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: RW Message-ID: <20080717190859.GA87139@thought.org> References: <20080714201241.GA22443@thought.org> <20080715073651.P1638@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20080715183500.GA76088@thought.org> <20080715190224.GC21840@Grumpy.DynDNS.org> <20080715215024.GA82902@thought.org> <20080716230332.GA41205@thought.org> <20080717183521.29c90d7f@gumby.homeunix.com.> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080717183521.29c90d7f@gumby.homeunix.com.> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 21++ years of service to the Unix community. X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=3.6 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on aristotle.thought.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: why is this script failing? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:09:01 -0000 On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 06:35:21PM +0100, RW wrote: > On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 16:03:32 -0700 > Gary Kline wrote: > > > On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 08:42:13PM -0500, David Kelly wrote: > > > > You might consider adding something like > > > > > > setenv TMPDIR /home/dkelly/tmp > > > setenv TMP /home/dkelly/tmp > > There are also KDEVARTMP and KDETMP which are specific to kde > > > > what i should probably do is make extract ktts or amarok and > > look for /tmp/kde-[usr]/* and se WHY these wav files are ever > > kept. for kttsd, yeah, it makes going back several lines > > easier. that may explain why i have found > > "{garbage}wav{garbage}" where {garbage} is several alpha-numbering. > > no dots, no hyphens. or files ending in *wav.part" > > > > this may be a historical leftover from when memory was very > > pricey and disk-space much cheaper. [[ guessing ]] > > > > > KAudioCreator and konqueror create intermediate wav[.part] files when > they are extracting MP3s etc from CDs. i didn't know that konq could read CD's. it mmust have been KAudioCreator that i used to extract a few tracks onto my drive. somehow, it assumed that i wanted the whole CD and i must have messed up while trying to quit. there's a player and extractor on the gnome side, Sound Juicer. for some reason it can't find /dev/cd0. [?] -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org