On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 12:14, Michael Holt wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 11:57, Jack Coates wrote:
> 
> > no it isn't, that's the control panel applet, which happens to start
> > gpilotd for you if it isn't already running. Just run gpilotd from a
> > startup script.
> 
> Ok, if I do 'which gpilotd' it's nowhere to be found.  If I do 'gpilotd'
> from the command, I get --bash command not found.  In fact, if you do
> 'gpil<tab>' you get:
> 
> gpilotd-control-applet   gpilotd-session-wrapper  gpilot-install-file
> 

[EMAIL PROTECTED] html]# urpmf gpilotd
libgnome-pilot2:/usr/lib/libgpilotd.so.2
libgnome-pilot2:/usr/lib/libgpilotd.so.2.1.0
libgnome-pilot2:/usr/lib/libgpilotdcm.so.2
libgnome-pilot2:/usr/lib/libgpilotdcm.so.2.0.2
libgnome-pilot2:/usr/lib/libgpilotdconduit.so.2
libgnome-pilot2:/usr/lib/libgpilotdconduit.so.2.0.3
gnome-pilot:/usr/bin/gpilotd-control-applet
gnome-pilot:/usr/bin/gpilotd-session-wrapper
gnome-pilot:/usr/lib/gpilotd
...

ah hah. There's your gpilotd... that session-wrapper thing might be
useful... try using file on it, and if it's a script then it might tell
you something useful.


> The actual 'gpilotd' seems to be buried somewhere.  I tried doing 'vi
> gpilotd-control-applet' just to see if I could see what is happening,
> but it wasn't very helpful for me.
> 

isn't that a binary? wouldn't be hlepful to me either :)

> 
> > you're lucky that it works at all, gnome-pilot is one finicky pile of
> > junk -- er, fine piece of software. :-)
> 
> :)
> 
> 
> 
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