Re: gtkfaim AOL IM Client

[Adam Tauno Williams <adam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>strace the program what is the error (return code) of the open call for 
>>that file?
>    Actually, it's got bigger problems.. I ran strace and it's getting
> protocol rejections from AOL. 
> ---------------------------
> write(1, "parse_login_response: j+276/277/"..., 71parse_login_response:
> j+276/277/278/279/280 wrong for this packet type
> ) = 71
> ---------------------------

Fascinating.  You should at least send an e-mail to the project maintainer about
this, to be a good GNU citizen.

 
>   Reference to your question:
>---------------------------
>[root@Pegasus ke4rit]# strace /usr/bin/gtkfaim &> faim.error
>[root@Pegasus ke4rit]# cat faim.error | grep .faimrc
>open("faimrc", O_RDONLY)                = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
>directory)
>open("/root/.faimrc", O_RDONLY)         = -1 ENOENT (No such file or
>directory)
>write(2, "gtkfaim: config(config.c:233): c"..., 57gtkfaim:
>config(config.c:233): could not open ~/.faimrc: ) = 57
>[root@Pegasus ke4rit]#       
>---------------------------
>Looks like to me it's looking for .faimrc in /root. Am I reading this right?

It looks for "faimrc" in the current directory first though.  You're not running
this as root are you?  Is it set-user-id to root?


>   It really doesn't matter now... I finally got Kaim to compile and it
>works fine so I'll use it.

DOH!  And I already answered all the above.

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