On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 07:53:46AM +0100, Edward Betts wrote:
> This is a problem, the maintainer moved from C to C++ and lost my
> /etc/colortail patch in the process. I will look into it, but I do not know
> C++ very well, whether somebody else could help, or possibly adopt the
> package?
You should really learn C++ - I just noticed that I did not use it often
enough. I really know the language but what I don't know are the libraries.
With some info commands I got the following patch:
--- colortail-0.3.0.orig/OptionsParser.cc Thu Aug 5 01:23:39 1999
+++ colortail-0.3.0/OptionsParser.cc Sat Oct 2 10:49:50 1999
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
#include <string.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
#include "OptionsParser.h"
#include "Info.h"
@@ -232,6 +233,43 @@
}
}
+ // Debian modification: Check for $HOME/.colortail and /etc/colortail
+ // if no config file was given on the command line.
+
+ if( o->color != 0 && o->nr_cfg_files == 0 )
+ {
+ // Use the default configuration only if color is wanted and there
+ // was no config file given.
+
+ const char *home = getenv("HOME");
+ if( home ) {
+ ostrstream filename;
+ // Let's look into the home directory first
+
+ filename << home << '/' << ".colortail" << '\0';
+ if( access(filename.str(), R_OK) == 0 )
+ {
+ o->cfg_filenames[o->nr_cfg_files++] = filename.str();
+ o->global_cfg_file = 1;
+ } else
+ filename.freeze(0);
+ }
+
+ if( o->nr_cfg_files == 0 ) {
+ ostrstream filename;
+ // Still nothing found
+
+ filename << "/etc/colortail" << '\0';
+
+ if( access(filename.str(), R_OK) == 0 )
+ {
+ o->cfg_filenames[o->nr_cfg_files++] = filename.str();
+ o->global_cfg_file = 1;
+ } else
+ filename.freeze(0);
+ }
+ }
+
return o;
}
Hope this helps. As I often heard that the patches did not come through,
you can also get this patch at
http://pclab.ifg.uni-kiel.de/~torsten/colortail.diff
Hope this helps
Torsten Landschoff for the Debian QA Group
