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Archive for April, 2008

18
Apr

Bash delirium (delirio in bash)

f1() { :; }; f0() { f$((${#1}==0)) "${1:1}"; echo -n "${1:0:1}"; }; f0 'dlrow olleh'; echo

13
Apr

MusicBrainz not working with Amarok on Fedora 8

On my Fedora 8 system with Amarok I was trying to fill an mp3′s tag header using MusicBrainz, getting the following error:

Tunepimp (MusicBrainz tagging library) returned the following error: "Fingerprinting of .mp3 files is not supported."

To make it work, just yum install libtunepimp-extras-nonfree

12
Apr

SSH X11 forwarding issue

Recently I’ve been in an awkward situation with ssh and X11 forwarding, where ssh using the classic -Y (or -X) switch wasn’t working (DISPLAY was not set):

[andrea@duncan ~]$ ssh -Y root@thufir
root@thufir's password:
Last login: Sat Apr 12 23:30:09 2008 from ***
[root@thufir ~]# echo $DISPLAY
[root@thufir ~]#

If you are experiencing the same and your sshd_config looks fine (which means TCP and X11 forwarding is already enabled) then the answer is missing xauth!

On RedHat yum install xauth will do the trick