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. > I am using xfstt 0.9.10-1 and the --daemon option is actually part of /etc/init.d/xfstt script, I don't use it manually. On the attempt to issue only one dash "-daemon" it complains of the wrong syntax. The problem is that starting xfstt manually works fine, but starting it from init.d does not. Neither does "xfstt --daemon". And I'm not sure what's wrong. Sergey.