Fully qualified means starting from /, so yes, you'd have to go back to
the user's folder. I am not familiar with OS X file system layout, so I
don't know if users is at the root, but I would start with / and work
towards the folder where you want to store the reports. The advantage of
doing it this way is that you can guarantee where the reports are
written to no matter where you are (or the cron job is) when you run
Report Magic.
To find out where your home directory is try either of these:
echo $HOME
or
cd ~
pwd
Then use that as the beginning of the path where you want to write reports.
--
Jeremy Wadsack
Seven Simple Machines
James Coyle wrote:
I installed Report Magic via Fink, which puts all UNIX apps in the
same folder, i.e. sw/share. In a perfect world, I'd like the Reports
to go to the Documents folder in my home folder and NOT the relative
jamescoy/Documents folder within Report Magic.
I'm a UNIX newbie, so please forgive what is probably an elementary
question, but what sort of path i.e. "fully qualified, would I give
to the report.ini file. Would I need to go all the way back to
users/jamescoy/documents?
Thanks again
J
On Apr 3, 2005, at 6:46 PM, Jeremy Wadsack wrote:
James Coyle wrote:
I've been having a problem with Report Magic not being able to write
it's report to a folder within my home documents folder: (This is
with Analog 6.0)
Report Magic 2.21
Copyright (C) 1999-2003 Wadsack-Allen. All rights reserved.
rmagic: Beginning report creation (Sat Apr 2 23:39:21 2005).
rmagic: --> Settings file: ./rmagic.ini.
rmagic: --> Input data file: report.dat.
rmagic: --> Output report file: jamescoy/Documents/Reports/ .
rmagic: --> Output frameset file:
jamescoy/Documents/Reports/index.html.
rmagic: ERROR: -- Can't write to the report file:
jamescoy/Documents/Reports/ --
[James-Coyles-iBook:/sw/share/rmagic] jamescoy% ./rmagic.pl
Report Magic 2.21
Copyright (C) 1999-2003 Wadsack-Allen. All rights reserved.
rmagic: Beginning report creation (Sat Apr 2 23:40:44 2005).
rmagic: --> Settings file: ./rmagic.ini.
rmagic: --> Input data file: report.dat.
rmagic: --> Output report file: jamescoy/Documents/Reports/ .
rmagic: --> Output frameset file:
jamescoy/Documents/Reports/index.html.
rmagic: ERROR: -- Can't write to the frameset file:
jamescoy/Documents/Reports/index.html --
I've checked permissions and there doesn't seem to be any lack of
permissions for Report Magic to write there. What am I doing wrong
here? I'd like to have all graphics, etc. write to the above
"Reports" folder.
It looks like you are running this from the folder /sw/share/rmagic,
and trying to put the documents into the relative folder
jamescoy/Documents/Reports. Do you really want these results to be in
/sw/share/rmagic/jamescoy/Documents/Reports/?
If you are trying to put them into ~jamescoy, make sure you resolve
that to a fully qualified pathname before adding it to your
rmagic.ini file.
--
Jeremy Wadsack
Seven Simple Machines
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