No, not complicated at all. I'm just saying the problem likely exists because you are not using the X libraries that bat was compiled against but are substituting another program. Indeed that may be the original intention of the X specification but we see it isn't 100%.
I consider the addition of a dependency for this case unjustified because it would cause a lot of people to install something they don't need. A note in the documentation should suffice. On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 15:18 +0300, Alex Ehrlich wrote: > Well, it is *the* way X was meant to work from the very beginning -- > universally talking to any X server (and not just on xorg, xfree86, > whatever else that did not exist at the time X was born IIRC) via > network... And the BAT currently does -- provided the font problem is > solved (of course, there are some more complains from it, but it still > works). > But, actually, if it is too complicated (or, probably, you find it > unjustified instead of complicated) to add the dependency, then maybe > just add a note in the BAT documentation about "additional pre-requisite > to run on 'minimal' CentOS"? > > Alex > > Scott Barninger wrote: > > Ah, well then since bat is compiled against xorg I suppose anything > > could happen when trying to use it in this manner. > > > > On Sat, 2008-08-09 at 14:28 +0300, Alex Ehrlich wrote: > > > >> Install CentOS without X. > >> Install an X server (Xming in my case, it's free, but there are some > >> others, Exceed is the best known one probably) on a Windows machine (my > >> favorite laptop). > >> Connect from Windows to CentOS by PuTTY via SSH with X11 forward; set > >> "DISPLAY=ip_of_the_machine_running_Xming:0; export DISPLAY". > >> Start the X server on the Windows machine. > >> (There might be some mess with security of the X server but as I run > >> everything on my home LAN I just don't bother with it). > >> All this "X server on Windows" stuff and how to make it work is pretty > >> well explained on the xming page > >> (http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingNotes/). > >> Start any X program on the Linux machine in the PuTTY SSH session and it > >> shall display on the Windows machine (I installed xterm just for test > >> purposes and it worked fine). > >> So far so good. > >> Now the problem with BAT is that it crashes on startup in the > >> environment where xterm works fine. There are no font dependencies > >> listed in it (ldd). I had to google pretty much to find that installing > >> the fonts solves the problem, and indeed it does. *Maybe* some other > >> font package would be sufficient, I never tried. > >> There was another suggestion how to make this work: "install X server on > >> the Linux machine", but this is a little bit overkill. I hope you agree > >> that CentOS (ok, RHEL) in its "minimum" configuration (i.e. *without* X) > >> is a pretty popular one for Linux servers today; actually I see no good > >> reason to install X on the server if you can avoid it and you won't sit > >> in front of it physically, and the less you have installed on a *server* > >> the better it works and the more secure it is. > >> > >> Alex > >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
