david@sco.COM (David J. Fiander) (01/08/91)
In article <1991Jan4.032920.13524@NCoast.ORG> allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR) writes: >I had this happen to me once as well... but when I ran checkque as root >instead of mmdf, I saw stuff in the queue. Red flag... I immediately ran >checkup and it straightened out permissions for me. And pointed out the only >bug I've found in MMDFIIb #43 to date: you can't change the lock directory in >mmdftailor, it gets misread. Since I've got the source, if it annoys me >enough I'll track it down and fix it. > Brandon, in the introduction to the section on runtime tailoring of MMDF in the paper "Installing and Operating MMDF II" (which I know you have, since you have told others where to get it), it mentions that strings which are not simply alpha-numeric should be quoted. If you do this it will quite successfully read the lock directory name from mmdftailor. I was bitten by this once when I tried to put an absolute pathname into the tailor file to log debugging output for one particular channel. >++Brandon >-- >Me: Brandon S. Allbery VHF/UHF: KB8JRR on 220, 2m, 440 >Internet: allbery@NCoast.ORG Packet: KB8JRR @ WA8BXN >America OnLine: KB8JRR AMPR: KB8JRR.AmPR.ORG [44.70.4.88] >uunet!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!ncoast!allbery Delphi: ALLBERY David J. Fiander MMDF Development Team SCO Canada
allbery@NCoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR) (01/11/91)
As quoted from <1991Jan07.204046.3668@sco.COM> by david@sco.COM (David J. Fiander): +--------------- | In article <1991Jan4.032920.13524@NCoast.ORG> allbery@ncoast.ORG (Brandon S. Allbery KB8JRR) writes: | Brandon, in the introduction to the section on runtime tailoring of MMDF in the | paper "Installing and Operating MMDF II" (which I know you have, since you have | told others where to get it), it mentions that strings which are not simply | alpha-numeric should be quoted. If you do this it will quite successfully read +--------------- Evidently I saw it and forgot it... your message does recall to memory something about that. Not that it makes a lot of sense to me that it would not catch that in "checkup", nor do any other kind of complaining (i.e. print a syntax error message). I also seem to have left that manual at the office, and the computer is out in the field. I plan to correct that tomorrow when I go in to the office.... (duh! I can be real brilliant when I try. ;-) ++Brandon -- Me: Brandon S. Allbery VHF/UHF: KB8JRR on 220, 2m, 440 Internet: allbery@NCoast.ORG Packet: KB8JRR @ WA8BXN America OnLine: KB8JRR AMPR: KB8JRR.AmPR.ORG [44.70.4.88] uunet!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!ncoast!allbery Delphi: ALLBERY