Mark Allums wrote:
Peter Daum wrote:certainly not the most critical problem, but at least on my system (mainly Etch, I also tried the fortune package from Lenny) doesn't work. when I trace it, I can see that it reads a bunch of fortue data files but that is obviously justfor its own pleasure - it just silently exits w/o any error. Any ideas? PeterI bet it is producing output *somewhere*, the question is *where*.
That would be pretty amazing, because it isn't even trying to - as already said, when it strace what it does, I can see it opening and reading a whole bunch of date files, but it does not issue a single "write" syscall. There also should be al necessary packages installed (unless there is something essential missing in the dependencies): # dpkg -l fortune*|grep ii ii fortune-mod 1.99.1-3.1 provides fortune cookies on demand ii fortunes 1.99.1-3.1 Data files containing fortune cookies ii fortunes-min 1.99.1-3.1 Data files containing fortune cookies