New xfs (X font server) initscript for testing. Should work in all Fedora Core OS releases, as well as RHL 8 and RHEL3 and newer. Please test!
Mike A. Harris
mharris at www.linux.org.uk
Tue Apr 5 06:30:14 UTC 2005
Bret Hughes wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 18:07, Dan Hollis wrote:
>
>>On Mon, 4 Apr 2005, Mike A. Harris wrote:
>>
>>>I'd like to hear both BAD *and* GOOD feedback from whoever
>>>tests this, so if you test it and do not notice anything
>>>different, please respond to let me know that also.
>>>If you notice any regressions with this initscript
>>>compared to the previous one you were using, please
>>>respond with full details of the problem, and exact
>>>error messages you see (if any). Also indicate if
>>>you are using only stock OS supplied fonts, or fonts
>>>you have added yourself. It'd be particularly good
>>>to hear feedback from people using lots of 3rd party
>>>fonts, as we do not normally have such fonts for
>>>testing purposes internally.
>>
>>On FC3 i386 (stock fonts, stock everything.)
>>
>># ./xfs restart
>>Restarting xfs:
>>Shutting down xfs: [ OK ]
>>Starting xfs: ./xfs: line 56: [: missing `]'
>> [ OK ]
>>
>
>
> Huh me too. first glance I can't see what the deal is. I simply did
> wget url and moved it. Of course I also had to make it executable.
>
> here is the orig line 56:
>
> [ -x "$FC_CACHE" ] HOME=/ "$FC_CACHE" $d
>
> here is one with the change I made to get it to work (added &&)
>
> [ -x "$FC_CACHE" ] && HOME=/ "$FC_CACHE" $d
>
> Is there some environment var. that is letting this work on some boxes
> and not others?
>
> FYI this is on a ppc box although I can't see why that would make a
> difference.
Naw, it was a bug. ;) I tested one script, and uploaded
a different one by mistake. ;o) Your bugfix is correct.
Note, the bug wont cause any damage, in case people are worried. ;)
Just causes fc-cache to not get executed. New uploaded version
fixes that.
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