Re: xfstt + xset

["Stephen J. Carpenter" <sjc@mgh.harvard.edu>]

On Tue, Nov 03, 1998 at 12:11:20PM -0500, Sergey V Kovalyov wrote:
> Even more wierd: 
> I have a server and a client, the client mounts /usr via nfs from server;
> /var is local, the rest is syncronized via cfengine.
> /etc/init.d/xfstt start
> works on the server, does not on the client. Just xfstt works everywhere.
> 
> Any idea what the so subtle difference between these machines might be?
> 

Ahhh....
well this si a FIXME of sorts) :)

xfstt currently requires write acess to a font database it stores
(which by all rights should be in /var) as it stands this is in
the same directory as the fonts...

this same thing happens when you run xfstt as a normal user. With NFS on
you probably have root_squash on (which is the default) so root
on the client can not write tot he database!

sorry for the inconvinece...I should work on this!

any ideas on where the font database should be?

-Steve 

> 
> On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Nov 03, 1998 at 12:07:05AM -0500, Sergey V Kovalyov wrote:
> > > Use "ps aux" to check that xfstt is actually running. I've encountered a
> > > wierd problem today that xfstt by itself works, but xfstt --daemon
> > > does not.
> > > Very strange - it worked yesterday. I don't think I've changed anything
> > > important.
> > > Anyone got a similar problem ?
> > 
> > Wow someone already using -daemon option (I added it and rushed it in
> > to the upstream author very shortly before releace :) )
> > 
> > anyway...it is "-daemon" NOT "--daemon" yes this is counter-intuitive
> > to the way MANY programs work but...
> > ALL o fth eother xfstt options use only 1 '-' and ALL are long options.
> > 
> > I just followed the convention the author used. Try it an let me know.
> > 
> > -Steve
> > 
> > > Sergey.
> > > 
> > > On 3 Nov 1998, Gossamer wrote:
> > > 
> > > > I've just installed xfstt and a bunch of truetype fonts.  When
> > > > I run 'xfstt --sync' it works fine, and startind the daemon from
> > > > the /etc/init.d/xfstt script works.  But I can't get the server
> > > > to talk to it:
> > > > 
> > > > [gossamer@penguin] ~/cs3/ai> ps aux | grep xfstt
> > > > root       227  7.4  1.3  1332   520  ?  S    12:53   0:50 /usr/X11R6/bin/xfstt
> > > > [gossamer@penguin] ~/cs3/ai> xset fp+ unix:/7101
> > > > xset:  bad font path element (#38), possible causes are:
> > > >     Directory does not exist or has wrong permissions
> > > >     Directory missing fonts.dir
> > > >     Incorrect font server address or syntax
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Any ideas?
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > bekj
> > > > 
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