Re: [SLUG] Two Perplexities...

From: Eben King (eben1@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Mon Aug 04 2003 - 12:16:45 EDT


On Mon, 4 Aug 2003, Logan wrote:

> Hello All,
> I installed my "new" SCSI CD burner and decided, why not go with a
> fresh Debian Woody install, vice my old apt-get dist upgrade from
> potato, I was running. Remember this is the machine that hadn't been
> rebooted in over a year. The install went perfectly. But two things
> are irritating me.
> First, I wrote this script, about six years ago, to create my
> .signature file:
>
> #!/bin/sh
> echo $(uptime) > ~/.hold
> echo $(fortune /home/logan/text/quotes) >> ~/.hold
> echo Registered Linux User 277727 GAIM ICQ 72101412 >> ~/.hold
> cp -f ~/.hold ~/.signature
>
>
> It is fired off by my personal cron and has worked perfectly since its
> crude creation. Now the fortune portion no longer works. It works if I
> run the script by hand, it works perfectly, but cron can no longer make
> the fortune part work.

$PATH issue? Put 'echo "$PATH" | logger' in the script. Compare what it
says when cron runs it, to what it says when you run it by hand. Maybe
add something like

set -x
exec 2> /tmp/log

near the top.

> Second, Galeon 1.2.5 is not remembering its preferences. I copy my old
> .galeon directory to my new ~/ and it gets all of my old bookmarks but
> not my preferences (tabbed browsing, tabs on bottom, popups in tabs
> etc.) Googling has yielded no useful information, so any ideas will be
> appreciated.

Maybe there's a ~/.galeonrc ? Never used Galeon.

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