Subject: Re: [htdig3-dev] htdig -- 3.1.5 -- failures to locate existing conf files.
From: Gilles Detillieux (grdetil@scrc.umanitoba.ca)
Date: Fri Mar 10 2000 - 14:48:08 PST
According to Sphboc@aol.com:
> I've been getting 'intermittent' error messages, from htdig, to effect that
> '[configuration file] could not be found.
>
> This always seems to happen from a c-shell script. I can key in same
> command, directly to command line, and it executes.
>
> stored command, as I execute it: ../bin/htdig -svc [config file].
>
> I've noticed that prefixing command-file name with ../conf/ 'sometimes'
> causes file to be found. (Perhaps i'm giving a more-explicit path
> specification).
>
> By the way, what is the "implied" directory for the .conf file? Appears to
> be that from which the command to run htdig is issues, but I'd like to
> confirm that.
That's correct. htdig does not do any chdir() calls, and does not prepend
anything to the config file name you give, so it's relative to the current
directory unless fully qualified (i.e. if it begins with a /).
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