I've attached the patch that Ted mentioned.
Looking over the bug report, I see I could have made the reason the
software fails to run clearer.
When twlog is run it searches for $HOME/.twlogDir and
$HOME/.twlogDir/logfile. If these are not found, it writes an error
message to stderr and exits.
Launching the program from the GUI, it looks like nothing happened. The
only way I found what was happening was by running the program from the
command line in an x-term window.
I think the simplest fix is for this issue is for twlog to just make the
directory and file that it needs.
--
Jacob
diff -Naur twlog-2.3/src/twlog.c twlog-2.3-jla/src/twlog.c
--- twlog-2.3/src/twlog.c 2006-03-01 16:12:55.000000000 -0700
+++ twlog-2.3-jla/src/twlog.c 2007-03-26 21:15:37.607856959 -0600
@@ -182,19 +182,21 @@
strcpy (dirpath, getenv ("HOME")); /* $HOME to dir path */
strcat (dirpath, LOGDIR); /* then add LOGDIR */
- if (stat (dirpath, &buf) == -1) /* does $HOME/LOGDIR exist? */
+ if (stat (dirpath, &buf) == -1 /* does $HOME/LOGDIR exist? */
+ && mkdir (dirpath, S_IRWXU) == -1) /* or try to create it */
{
perror ("twlog");
- fprintf (stderr, "twlog: Can't find log directory %s\n", dirpath);
+ fprintf (stderr, "twlog: Can't create log directory %s\n", dirpath);
exit (1);
}
strcpy (logpath, dirpath); /* dirpath to logpath */
strcat (logpath, LOGFILE); /* add LOGFILE name */
- if (stat (logpath, &buf) == -1) /* and check that it exists */
+ if (stat (logpath, &buf) == -1 /* and check that it exists */
+ && creat(logpath, S_IRUSR|S_IWUSR) == -1) /* or try to create it */
{
perror ("twlog");
- fprintf (stderr, "twlog: Can't find %s\n", logpath);
+ fprintf (stderr, "twlog: Can't create initial log file %s\n", logpath);
exit (1);
}
