Wanda is broken

Sean Bruno sean.bruno at dsl-only.net
Sun Apr 24 06:34:10 UTC 2005


On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 19:41 -0400, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> On 4/22/05, Sean Bruno <sean.bruno at dsl-only.net> wrote:
> > Wanda "the fish" applet for the panel appears to be unable to
> > find /usr/X11R6/lib/xscreensaver/fortune.  
> 
> This file is actually not the real fortune.. it is/was  a very simple
> standin script. The real fortune-mod package has been gone for a long
> long while. I think it was removed between rhl9 and fc1.  The standin
> script that was used before in fc2 and fc3 is very simple. Either the
> standin script should be added back or wanda should be updated to
> default to a new default command.  There's no comment in the
> xscreensaver package changelog snippets to suggest why this was
> removed.
> /usr/X11R6/lib/xscreensaver/fortune   from fc3
> #!/bin/sh
> if [ ! -d /usr/games/fortune -a -x /usr/games/fortune ]; then
>         /usr/games/fortune $*
> elif [ -x /usr/bin/fortune ]; then
>         /usr/bin/fortune $*
> else
>         cat /etc/redhat-release
>         uname -sr
>         uptime
> fi
> 
> -jef
> 
So...what is the verdict here?  Should this fill-in script be added
back?  All of the discussion after Jeff's response here was well beyond
the scope of what I was reporting(not that it wasn't interesting).  :)

Sean




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