Linux Page - blackbox configuration and cd-burning shellscripts

hmmm... one "under construction" sign spared...

Basics: Compaq Presario Laptop PIII 500MHz 40GB HDD
OS: SuSE Linux Pro 8.0 (& Win2k Dual Boot (LILO))
WM: Blackbox (CVS)
MTA: Postfix with TLS
MDA: Procmail with spamassassin, pyzor, dcc, ...
MUA: mutt with muttprint, gpg, sigrot, w3m, ...
WWW: Opera

Other tools I use: Rox-Filer, xmms, xmule, OpenOffice, Bluefish, vim (merely trying to get used to it), LaTeX/KOMA-Script (also just trying to get into it a bit).
What more? - I've made my own shellscripts to interface cdrecord et al. (to burn either backups or mp3s).
And I like disc-cover a lot.

I've put a little more effort into my security and mailing setup, which can be studied either in the pages referenced right on top of this page (Postfix, Procmail, mutt etc.), or on the security section...

Blackbox

I am running a northsea-styled Blackbox 0.70 (CVS) with rox-filer desktop (aka "pinboard"), bbkeys (CVS), wmappkill, wmix, wmxmms (that's wmxmms (coming with xmms), not WMxmms.) and wmswallow-kinternet plugins

Then, in the first of my three workspaces, I have an Aterm with Screen running, which in turn provides mutt, bash and mc. I have another transparent, sticky, all-below aterm with 'top -i' running permanently in it.

Here are the screenshots

my first workspace, with aterm, mutt and wmappkill, wmxmms, wmix and wmswallow/kinternet plugins in the slit.	my second workspace along with some transparent aterms and bbox's menu.

how I get this?

For sake of completeness, here is my

~/.screenrc

screen -t shell 3
screen -t mutt -M 2 mutt
screen -t mc 1 mc

~/.xinitrc

export   ATERM_MAIN="-tr -trsb -fn 6x13 -sh 45 -fade 25 -trsb -vb -fg grey"
export    ATERM_TOP="-tr -trsb -fn 6x13 -sh 110 -tn xterm-vt220"

if test "$WINDOWMANAGER" == "/usr/local/bin/blackbox"; then

 # /usr/local/bin/bbpager -c ~/.blackbox/.bbpagerrc & # this doesn't work with BB-CVS yet...

 # Dockapps
 /usr/X11/bin/wmAppKill &
 sleep 1 && /usr/X11/bin/wmxmms &
 sleep 2 && /usr/X11/bin/wmix &
 /usr/X11/bin/wmswallow -geometry 55x57 -noshape kinternet kinternet --swallow &

 # programs running in the background
 /usr/local/bin/bbkeys -c ~/.blackbox/.bbkeysrc &
 /usr/local/bin/xbut &

 sleep 3 && aterm $ATERM_MAIN -geometry 130x55+0+0 -e screen &
 sleep 4 && aterm $ATERM_TOP  -geometry 81x30-0+0 -e top -i && wmctrl -r top -b add,below &
 sleep 3 && rox --pinboard=MyPinboard

 # finally, start blackbox
 exec /usr/local/bin/blackbox -rc ~/.blackbox/.blackboxrc
 exit 0

~/.blackbox/.blackboxrc

session.screen0.slit.placement:          CenterRight
session.screen0.slit.direction:          Vertical
session.screen0.slit.onTop:              True
session.screen0.slit.autoHide:           True
session.screen0.toolbar.placement:       BottomCenter
session.screen0.toolbar.onTop:           True
session.screen0.toolbar.autoHide:        False
session.screen0.toolbar.widthPercent:    70
session.screen0.windowPlacement:         RowSmartPlacement
session.screen0.edgeSnapThreshold:       10
session.screen0.fullMaximization:        False
session.screen0.focusLastWindow:         True
session.screen0.focusModel:              SloppyFocus AutoRaise ClickRaise
session.screen0.strftimeFormat:          %d.%m.%y %H:%M
session.screen0.placementIgnoresShaded:  True
session.screen0.disableBindingsWithScrollLock:  False
session.screen0.rowPlacementDirection:   LeftToRight
session.screen0.workspaces:              3
session.screen0.enableToolbar:           True
session.screen0.workspaceNames:          WSpace 1,Office,MMedia
session.screen0.focusNewWindows:         True
session.screen0.colPlacementDirection:   TopToBottom
session.screen0.opaqueMove:              False
session.styleFile:                       ~/.blackbox/styles/northsea
session.menuFile:                        ~/.blackbox/.bboxmenu
session.doubleClickInterval:             300
session.cacheMax:                        200
session.imageDither:                     OrderedDither
session.colorsPerChannel:                4
session.cacheLife:                       5
session.autoRaiseDelay:                  750
session.maximumColors:                   126
*font:                                   -microsoft-Verdana-medium-r-normal--12-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-10

~/.blackbox/.bsetbgrc

CENTER   ="display -backdrop -window root"
FULL     ="display -geometry 800x600 -window root"
TILE     ="display -window root"
DEFAULT  ="display -backdrop -window root"

~/.blackbox/.bbkeysrc

[begin] (bbkeys configuration file)

[config]
 [option] (stylefile) {~/.blackbox/styles/northsea}
 [option] (honorModifiers) {false}
 [option] (raiseWhileCycling) {false}
 [option] (showCycleMenu)  {true}
 [option] (menuTextJustify) {right}
 [option] (autoConfig)   {true}
 [option] (autoConfigCheckTimeout) {10}
 [option] (workspaceColumns) {4}
 [option] (workspaceRows) {2}
 [option] (cycleMenuX) {200}
 [option] (cycleMenuY) {200}
[end]

[keybindings] (begin keybindings)

 [chain] (Control-Mod1-W)
   [sendToWorkspace] (1) {1}
   [sendToWorkspace] (2) {2}
   [sendToWorkspace] (3) {3}
 [end]
 [chain] (Mod1-Y)
   [execute] (1) {xmms}
   [execute] (2) {aumix -v +5}
   [execute] (3) {aumix -v -5}
 [end]
 [Lower]         (Mod1-Down)
 [Raise]         (Mod1-Up)
 [toggleShade]   (Mod1-Control-Shift-Up)
 [Close]         (Mod1-F4)
 [Iconify]       (Mod1-Control-Shift-i)
 [toggleMaximizeFull] (Mod1-F12)
 [toggleMaximizeHorizontal] (Mod1-F11)
 [toggleMaximizeVertical]   (Mod1-F10)
 [toggleOmnipresent]  (Mod1-Control-Shift-s)
 [toggleDecorations]  (Mod1-Control-Shift-t)
 [resizeWindowWidth]  (Control-Shift-Left) {-5}
 [resizeWindowWidth]  (Control-Shift-Right) {5}
 [resizeWindowHeight] (Control-Shift-Up) {-5}
 [resizeWindowHeight] (Control-Shift-Down) {5}
 [moveWindowUp]       (Mod1-Control-Up)
 [moveWindowDown]     (Mod1-Control-Down)
 [moveWindowLeft]     (Mod1-Control-Left)
 [moveWindowRight]    (Mod1-Control-Right)
 [NextWindow]         (Mod1-Tab)
 [NextWindowOnAllWorkspaces]  (Mod1-Control-Tab)
 [PrevWindow]         (Mod1-Shift-Tab)

 [NextWorkspace]    (Mod1-Control-Shift-Right)
 [PrevWorkspace]    (Mod1-COntrol-Shift-Left)
 [changeWorkspace]  (Mod1-1) {1}
 [changeWorkspace]  (Mod1-2) {2}
 [changeWorkspace]  (Mod1-3) {3}

 [showRootMenu] (Control-Escape)

 [Execute]  (Mod1-F5) {xrefresh}
 [Execute]  (Mod1-F1) {aterm}
 [Execute]  (Mod1-F2) {bbrun -a -w}
 [Execute]  (Mod4-E)  {kfmclient openProfile filemanagement}
 [Execute]  (Mod1-Control-Shift-m) {xterm -bg black -fg grey -wf +mb -vb -sb -rightbar -e 'mutt'}
 [Execute]  (Mod1-Control-Shift-k) {kdesu kate}
 [Execute]  (Mod1-Control-Shift-o) {opera}
 [Execute]  (Mod1-Control-Shift-x) {xmms}
 [Execute]  (Mod1-Control-Shift-a) {aterm -name "aterm" -title aterm -fn 6x13 -tr -trsb -sh 110 --geometry 95x35+80+240 -tn xterm-vt220}
 [Execute]  (Mod1-Control-Shift-1) {rox ~}
 [Execute]  (Mod1-Control-Shift-2) {rox /usr/local/apps}
 [Execute]  (Mod1-Control-Shift-3) {~/OpenOffice/soffice -quickstart &}
[end] (end keybindings)
[end] (end bbkeys configuration)

~/.blackbox/.bboxmenu

...oh, no. this is just too long.

~/.blackbox/.bbpagerrc

this is not used right now, since i can't (yet) get bbpager-cvs to read it in correctly...

bbpager.autoConfig:              True
bbpager.autoConfig.checkTimeout: 15
bbpager.position:                +0-0
bbpager.desktop.width:           30
bbpager.desktop.height:          22
bbpager.rows:                    1
bbpager.raised:                  True

my cd-burning shellscripts

cd.backup.sh

#!/bin/bash

# ------------------------------------------------
# Set variables

PREV=`pwd`
WRKDIR=`mktemp -d /var/CD/Temp/cdbackup.XXXXXX`
BACKDIR="/var/CD/Backup"
BACKREGDIR="$BACKDIR/registry"
LIVEREGDIR="/windows/C/W2K/system32/config"

echo "starting backup routines - make sure there is an empty medium in the CD recorder, i won't wait/check later on..."

# First, backup MBR and partitions
# ------------------------------------------------
SUCCESS_FLAG=""
cd "$BACKDIR"
echo "cd'ed to `pwd`, now backing up partition table..."
parted /dev/hda print > "$BACKDIR/partitions.txt"	|| SUCCESS_FLAG="false"
df -h | sort | grep "^/" > "$BACKDIR/mountpoints.txt"   || SUCCESS_FLAG="false"
dd if=/dev/hda of="$BACKDIR/hda.mbr" bs=512 count=1	|| SUCCESS_FLAG="false"
test -z $SUCCESS_FLAG && echo "Success, now proceeding with backing up home, mail and etc dirs..."
test -z $SUCCESS_FLAG || echo "There have been errors backing up partition info, but backup continues..."

# ------------------------------------------------
# Next, backup my home and etc directories

SUCCESS_FLAG=""
cd "$BACKDIR"
echo "cd'ed to `pwd`, now proceeding with backing up linux home, mail and etc directories,"
echo "this can take a while (bzipping), so please be patient..."
tar c --atime-preserve --bzip2 --one-file-system --preserve  \
 -f "$BACKDIR/wagner-home.tar.bz2" /home/wagner 	      || SUCCESS_FLAG="false"
tar c --atime-preserve --bzip2 --one-file-system --preserve  \
 -f "$BACKDIR/wagner-mail.tar.bz2" /var/mail/wagner     || SUCCESS_FLAG="false"
tar c --atime-preserve --bzip2 --one-file-system --preserve  \
 -f "$BACKDIR/etc.tar.bz2 /etc"                         || SUCCESS_FLAG="false"

test -z $SUCCESS_FLAG && echo "Success, now proceeding with backing up the W2K registry..."
test -z $SUCCESS_FLAG || echo "There have been errors backing up linux home, mail and etc dirs, but backup continues..."

# ------------------------------------------------
# Then update my backup of the W2K registry

SUCCESS_FLAG=""
cd "$BACKREGDIR"
for f in "SAM" "SECURITY" "default" "software" "system"; do
  cp -vu "$LIVEREGDIR/$f" "$BACKREGDIR/$f"          || SUCCESS_FLAG="false"
  bzip2 -f "$BACKREGDIR/$f" "$BACKREGDIR/$f.bz2"    || SUCCESS_FLAG="false"
done
cp -vu "/windows/C/Dokumente und Einstellungen/Administrator/NTUSER.DAT" \
          "$BACKREGDIR/Administrator/NTUSER.DAT"    || SUCCESS_FLAG="false"
bzip2 -f "$BACKREGDIR/Administrator/NTUSER.DAT" \
         "$BACKREGDIR/Administrator/NTUSER.DAT.bz2" || SUCCESS_FLAG="false"
cp -vu "/windows/C/Dokumente und Einstellungen/wagner/NTUSER.DAT" \
          "$BACKREGDIR/wagner/NTUSER.DAT"           || SUCCESS_FLAG="false"
bzip2 -f "$BACKREGDIR/wagner/NTUSER.DAT" \
         "$BACKREGDIR/wagner/NTUSER.DAT.bz2"        || SUCCESS_FLAG="false"
test -z $SUCCESS_FLAG && echo "Success, now proceeding with the iso image creation..."
test -z $SUCCESS_FLAG || echo "There have been errors backing up the registry, but backup continues..."

# ------------------------------------------------
# Next, make my iso image (and test it)...

SUCCESS_FLAG=""
cd "$WRKDIR"
echo "cd'ed to `pwd`, preparing ISO CD image now..."
mkisofs --allow-lowercase --allow-multidot -J -R -l -L -quiet -V "BACKUP-`date +%y%m%d`" -o "$WRKDIR/cdimage.iso" "$BACKDIR" \
                                                        || SUCCESS_FLAG="false"
echo "checking ISO CD image..."
mount "$WRKDIR/cdimage.iso" -r -t iso9660 -o loop /mnt  || SUCCESS_FLAG="false"
cd /mnt                                                 || SUCCESS_FLAG="false"
ls -AR > "$WRKDIR/dir.log"                              || SUCCESS_FLAG="false"
cd "$WRKDIR"                                            || SUCCESS_FLAG="false"
umount /mnt                                             || SUCCESS_FLAG="false"
test -z $SUCCESS_FLAG && echo "Success, now proceeding with the writing..."
test -z $SUCCESS_FLAG || {
  echo "There have been errors in creating the iso image, aborting backup..."
  exit
}

# ------------------------------------------------
# Finally, if all is okay, write the iso image.

SUCCESS_FLAG=""
cdrecord -s fs=8M -overburn -dao driveropts=burnfree -data "$WRKDIR/cdimage.iso"    || SUCCESS_FLAG="false"
test -z $SUCCESS_FLAG && echo "Done, checking CD..."
test -z $SUCCESS_FLAG || {
   echo "There have been errors in writing the image, better check the cd manually..."
   exit
}
sleep 5
mount /media/cdrecorder                               || SUCCESS_FLAG="false"
cd /media/cdrecorder                                  || SUCCESS_FLAG="false"
ls -AR > "$WRKDIR/dir2.log"                           || SUCCESS_FLAG="false"
cd "$WRKDIR"                                          || SUCCESS_FLAG="false"
umount /media/cdrecorder                              || SUCCESS_FLAG="false"
test -z "`diff $WRKDIR/dir.log $WRKDIR/dir2.log`"     || SUCCESS_FLAG="false"

test -z $SUCCESS_FLAG && echo "Success, now cleaning up and going home..."
test -z $SUCCESS_FLAG || {
   echo "There have been errors with the CD, better check the cd manually..."
   exit
}

# ------------------------------------------------
# Clean up and go to where you came from...
cd "$PREV"
rm -frv "$WRKDIR/*"
rmdir -v "$WRKDIR"

test -z $SUCCESS_FLAG && echo "Done. And remember: Backup early, backup often."

cd.burndatadir.sh

#!/bin/bash

# ------------------------------------------------
# Set variables

PREV=`pwd`
WRKDIR=`mktemp -d /var/CD/Temp/cdburn.XXXXXX`
test -z $1 && BURNDIR=$PREV
test -z $1 || BURNDIR=$1

echo "Starting Burn Routines, make sure there is an empty medium in the CD recorder, i won't wait or check later on..."

# ------------------------------------------------
# Next, make my iso image (and test it)...

SUCCESS_FLAG=""
cd "$WRKDIR"
echo "cd'ed to `pwd`, preparing ISO CD image of $BURNDIR now..."
mkisofs --allow-lowercase --allow-multidot -J -R -l -L -quiet -V "BACKUP-`date +%y%m%d`" -o "$WRKDIR/cdimage.iso" "$BURNDIR" \
                                                        || SUCCESS_FLAG="false"
echo "checking ISO CD image..."
mount "$WRKDIR/cdimage.iso" -r -t iso9660 -o loop /mnt  || SUCCESS_FLAG="false"
cd /mnt                                                 || SUCCESS_FLAG="false"
ls -AR > "$WRKDIR/dir.log"                              || SUCCESS_FLAG="false"
cd "$WRKDIR"                                            || SUCCESS_FLAG="false"
umount /mnt                                             || SUCCESS_FLAG="false"
test -z $SUCCESS_FLAG && echo "Success, now proceeding with the writing..."
test -z $SUCCESS_FLAG || {
  echo "There have been errors in creating the iso image, aborting backup..."
  exit
}

# ------------------------------------------------
# Finally, if all is okay, write the iso image.

SUCCESS_FLAG=""
cdrecord -s speed=8 fs=8M -overburn -dao -overburn driveropts=burnfree -data "$WRKDIR/cdimage.iso"   || SUCCESS_FLAG="false"
test -z $SUCCESS_FLAG && echo "Done, checking CD..."
test -z $SUCCESS_FLAG || {
   echo "There have been errors in writing the image, better check the cd manually..."
   exit
}
sleep 5
mount /media/cdrecorder                               || SUCCESS_FLAG="false"
cd /media/cdrecorder                                  || SUCCESS_FLAG="false"
ls -AR > "$WRKDIR/dir2.log"                           || SUCCESS_FLAG="false"
cd "$WRKDIR"                                          || SUCCESS_FLAG="false"
umount /media/cdrecorder                              || SUCCESS_FLAG="false"
test -z "`diff $WRKDIR/dir.log $WRKDIR/dir2.log`"     || SUCCESS_FLAG="false"

test -z $SUCCESS_FLAG && echo "Success, now cleaning up and going home..."
test -z $SUCCESS_FLAG || {
   echo "There have been errors with the CD, better check the cd manually..."
   exit
}

# ------------------------------------------------
# Clean up and go to where you came from...

cd "$PREV"
rm -frv "$WRKDIR/*"
rmdir -v "$WRKDIR"

test -z $SUCCESS_FLAG && echo "Ready. Seeya"

cd.burnmp3.sh

#!/bin/bash

# ------------------------------------------------
# Set variables

PREV=`pwd`
WRKDIR=`mktemp -d /var/CD/Temp/cdburn.XXXXXX`
test -z $1 && BURNDIR="$PREV"
test -z $1 || BURNDIR="$1"

echo "changing to $BURNDIR..."
cd "$BURNDIR"

echo "converting filenames in $BURNDIR to blankless with lowercase extensions..."
ls *.[mM][pP]3 &>/dev/null &&    for i in *.[mM][pP]3;    do cp "$i" "$WRKDIR/"`echo $i | tr [:upper:] [:lower:] | tr ' ' '_'`; done

echo "changing to $WRKDIR..."
cd "$WRKDIR"
ls *.mp3 &>/dev/null && echo "here's the list of mp3s now:" && ls -1 *.mp3

ls *.mp3 &>/dev/null && echo "converting mp3s now..." ; for i in *.mp3; do mpg123 -y -v -r 44100 --stereo -w `basename $i .mp3`.wav "$i"; done

echo "here's the list of wavs now:"; file *.wav
echo "generating toc-file..."; cd.generatetoc.sh *.wav
echo cd.toc
echo "recording cd now..."
cdrdao write --driver generic-mmc --buffers 512 --speed 8 --overburn cd.toc
echo "Done. Cleaning up..."
cd "$PREV"
rm -frv "$WRKDIR/*.*"
rmdir -v "$WRKDIR"

echo "Ready. Seeya"

cd.generatetoc.sh

(this isn't mine)

#!/bin/sh
# Usage: env DATA=1 generate_toc.sh stuff.iso
#        generate_toc.sh *.wav

IFS="
"
[ "$DATA" = "" ] && DATA=0
(
  if [ $DATA -eq 1 ]
  then
    echo CD_ROM
  else
   echo CD_DA
  fi
  for file in $@
  do
    echo
    if ( echo $file | grep '\.wav$' ) &>/dev/null
    then
      echo TRACK AUDIO
      echo AUDIOFILE \"$file\" 0
    else
      echo TRACK MODE1
      echo DATAFILE \"$file\"
    fi
  done
) >cd.toc

cd.copyaudio.sh

#!/bin/bash

# ---------------------------------------------
# Set variables
PREV=`pwd`
WRKDIR=`mktemp -d /var/CD/Temp/cdcopying.XXXXXX`

cd "$WRKDIR"
cdda2wav -vall -cddb=0 -D2,0 -B -x -Owav -dev=0,0,0 && \
echo "insert empty medium and press a key..."  && \
read && \
cdrecord -v speed=8 fs=8M -eject -overburn -dao driveropts=burnfree -useinfo -text *.wav

cd "$PREV"
rm -frv "$WRKDIR/*"
rmdir -v "$WRKDIR"

echo "Ready. Seeya"

cd.encmp3dir.sh

#!/bin/bash
echo "here's the list of wavs now:"; file *.wav
ls *.mp3 &>/dev/null && echo "converting wavs now..." ; for i in *.wav; do lame -m j --vbr-new --alt-preset extreme "$i" "`basename $i .wav`.mp3"; done
ls *.mp3 &>/dev/null && echo "here's the list of mp3s now:" && ls -1 *.mp3
echo "Ready. Seeya"

cd.printcovers.sh

#!/bin/bash
echo "here's the list of .ps files now:"; ls *.ps
ls *.ps &>/dev/null && echo "printint covers now..." ; for i in *.ps; do lpr -P lp $i ; done
echo "Done. Seeya"