On Sat, Dec 23, 2006 at 10:23:23PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > Has anyone played much with the VMWare appliance version of Xastir?
I know that at least one person here (who has never, ever posted) is using it regularly instead of cygwin. Perhaps he'll speak up? > I've managed to have it die more than a couple times. What dies? The whole virtual machine? Xastir? > I also can't > seem to get it to use shapefiles. The help dialog shows that shapefile > support is built in, but after putting shapefiles into the map > directory, and reindexing I show no maps beyond what came with the > appliance. Check file permissions. I had one person tell me he needed to change all the permissions in the maps directory to world readable to get it to work. The following command would do the trick: sudo chmod -R a+rX /usr/local/share/xastir/maps (the capital X in "a+rX" is important and means something different from the lower case) I don't know exactly why the new maps would get put there with the wrong permissions, but apparently it does happen. -- Tom Russo KM5VY SAR502 DM64ux http://www.swcp.com/~russo/ Tijeras, NM QRPL#1592 K2#398 SOC#236 AHTB#1 http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM "And, isn't sanity really just a one-trick pony anyway? I mean all you get is one trick, rational thinking, but when you're good and crazy, oooh, oooh, oooh, the sky is the limit!" --- The Tick _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
