On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Patrick <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 16:35:59 +0000 (UTC) > Thorsten Glaser wrote: > >> FWIW, we got it. >> >> 16:09⎜<thkoehler:#grml> ~> which lynx >> 16:09⎜<thkoehler:#grml> lynx: aliased to noglob command lynx -cfg=~/.lynxrc > > Uh, why are they loading ~/.lynxrc in place of the default > lynx.cfg file? An alternate config file makes sense, but > not .lynxrc . The two files have different formats, and > [somewhat] different purposes; one defines system-wide defaults, > while the other contains user-defined variations on those > defaults.
It's perfectly valid to use any file name for -cfg= as long as it is parseable. There is nothing to suggest that this is the Options generated file. > Try opening both in a text editor; you'll notice lynx.cfg uses > `THIS_SETTING:VALUE' and .lynxrc uses `this_setting=value' -- an > equals sign, not a colon. A lot of items from one file don't > match the equivalent item in the other, if there even is an > equivalent [and in many cases, there isn't]. I'd guess that the .lynxrc file is a variant of the stock lynx.cfg file. > Not sure if character case makes a difference though. > > Also, the ~/.lynxrc file is overwritten whenever you save > settings from the O)ptions screen. It won't preserve anything it > can't parse from that file. > Only if you use Options and save. >> 16:09⎜<thkoehler:#grml> when I run "command lynx", it doesn't log to syslog >> 16:09⎜<lynx:#grml> ah >> 16:09⎜<lynx:#grml> so, the -cfg= seems to override /etc/**/lynx.cfg >> 16:09⎜<thkoehler:#grml> yes >> 16:10⎜<thkoehler:#grml> but the .lynxrc doesn't contain anything about >> syslog logging >> 16:10⎜<thkoehler:#grml> so the default seems to be "log to syslog" >> 16:11⎜<thkoehler:#grml> adding "SYSLOG_REQUESTED_URLS:FALSE" to ~/.lynxrc >> fixed it now >> >> Tom, you might want to change the default… >> I don't recall a discussion about changing this. This is a packaging maintainer decision. > Stef _______________________________________________ Lynx-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lynx-dev
