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Thursday, June 27, 2013

Install flite (festival lite) text to speech system in linux

Flite is text to speech engine for linux. It is based on festival speech synthesis system. Most of the linux sytems comes with flite in its package manager. It's just a apt-get on debian based or yum install in rpm based systems.

For example, you can install it on centos with below command:

Sunday, June 23, 2013

How to download files recursively using wget as ftp client

I like to use rsync for scp for transferring files from another server whenever possible. But sometimes, we will be limited to use ftp for the same task due to different ssh port than the standard 22 as scp and rsync uses ssh.

Downloading each file separately one after another is tedious task than recursively download them. We can use wget with ftp protocol for recursively downloading files from another server. We will find out how to do this below.

How to autostart dropbox linux client daemon at server reboot

We have seen the script to start dropbox linux client daemon to start automatically if it is getting killed before. But how to autostart the client at server reboot?

As usual we can add the script to cronjob to take care of this. We will find this how below.

Script to check whether dropbox (dropboxd daemon) is running in linux server using command line

Now a days more people are using dropbox for backup in linux servers. Dropbox is a great product which has their client in all major platforms. So this is really ideal for using in linux servers too.

Dropbox runs dropboxd daemon in the server to check for updates and syncing the contents between its clients across different platforms. Sometimes this daemon will get killed and our backup process will be in jeopardy.