Re: gpilotd and some random comments

[Sam Phillips <samp aztech-cs com>]

On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, Ian McKellar frobwitzed with great zamboni-ism:

> On Mon, Feb 14, 2000 at 11:48:25PM -0800, Sam Phillips wrote:
> > 
> > Ok, so I finally got enough money together to buy a new cradle (since
> > I have no idea where my old one is), and now I can try out this fun
> > gnome pilot stuff.  Here are my observations/questions:
> > 
> > 1. I noticed an absence of a debian package.  Is someone working
> > on this?
> 
> Sort of. I made one, but the "make install" insisted in putting the gnorba
> stuff in absolute paths.
> > 
> > 2. Last bit.  After everything has been installed I try configuring
> > gnome pilot in the Control Center.  I get the error "Cannot connect to
> > the GnomePilot Daemon".  Ok, fair enough.  I try starting gpilotd.  It
> > tells me that there are "No cradles configure" and "No pilots
> > configured"  in the console I started gpilotd in there is a Warning
> > that it is "Winging it anyways..." and that I should run the
> > gpilotd-control-applet.  So I run gpilotd-control-applet and it still
> > tells me that it cannot connect to the GnomePilot Daemon.  Anyone have
> > any clues?
> 
> your .gnorba files are in the wrong place. configure with
> --sysconfdir=/etc
> 

Good. That fixed it right up.  Thanks Ian!

> Ian
> 
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