[Xastir] Xastir web interface?

[Craig Anderson]

If you have Imagemagick installed in a strange place
cron may not be picking up your environment and may
not be able to find all the libraries when it runs.  Try
surrounding your code with a shell script where you
can capture some debug output into a temporary file.

Craig
n6yxk

On Apr 1, 2008, at 4:04 PM, Dave H wrote:

> Thanks Tom
>
> I'll see about updating it - but probably wont be able to. I just  
> wonder why
> cron isn't working -
> when the command line is.
>
> I've looked in the man pages for Imagemagick and cron and can't see  
> where
> I'm going wrong.
> I'm running convert from the full path.
>
> I have read about someone using gnome-screengrab (or something like  
> that) as
> an alternative
> - they screen grabbed xwindow 0 image to home direectory then cron'd  
> ftp
> upload.
>
> Dave
> G0CER
> G6VSG
>
> On 01/04/2008, Tom Russo <russo at bogodyn.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 11:13:50PM +0100, we recorded a bogon- 
>> computron
>> collision of the <davekh at gmail.com> flavor, containing:
>>
>>> I took a quick look at this today and found it produces  
>>> snapshot.xpm - I
>> had
>>> a think and decided it might be nice to CRON a conversion from xpm  
>>> to
>> gif
>>> and then cron the gif by ftp to a website regularly.
>>
>>
>> It is supposed also to produce snapshot.png if you have ImageMagick
>> installed
>> in such a way that Xastir's configure process can find it.  Xastir  
>> uses
>> ImageMagick to convert the xpm file to .png.  That it isn't doing  
>> that for
>> you
>> suggests there's something wrong with your install and ImageMagick  
>> isn't
>> being found when it's built.  The fall-back position to not having
>> ImageMagick
>> is to use the XPM library instead.
>>
>>
>> --
>> 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
>>
>
>
>
> -- 
> Dave
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