[Xastir] Re: Weather Alerts (James Ewen)

[KK6RW]

Curt wrote:

> That last is only a test to make sure that the map files themselves
> are correct, and that Xastir can understand them.  It won't help you
> directly to get the weather alerts working.
>
> So far I'm seeing a trend:  Three or four people have reported that
> weather alerts aren't working for them.  If it was only one person,
> it would be a configuration or training issue to resolve.  ;-)
> Really, that's how we have to look at it most of the time, it's
> probably not a real problem in the code unless it is totally
> obvious, or more than one person is reporting it.
>
> You might take a run through your ~/.xastir/config/xastir.cnf file
> to see if any directory entries in there are corrupted or incorrect.
> One thing I can try here is to take one of my three users, rename
> the .xastir directory to something else, then start up Xastir and
> see if I can get weather alerts working with a default
> configuration.
>
> Here's what I have containing "share" in my xastir.cnf file.  See if
> yours are similar.  Pay particular attention to case:
>
>
>  > grep share xastir.cnf
>  AUTO_MAP_DIR:/usr/local/share/xastir/maps
>  ALERT_MAP_DIR:/usr/local/share/xastir/Counties
>  SELECTED_MAP_DIR:/usr/local/share/xastir/maps
>  SYMBOLS_DIR:/usr/local/share/xastir/symbols
>  SOUND_DIR:/usr/local/share/xastir/sounds
>  GNIS_FILE:/usr/local/share/xastir/GNIS/WA.gnis
>  GEOCODE_FILE:/usr/local/share/xastir/GNIS/WA.geocode

I have all the same files with the correct capitalization except for the 
following:

GEOCODE_FILE:/usr/local/share/xastir/GNIS/geocode SHOW_FIND_TARGET:1

Any clues here?

Randy, KK6RW