[Xastir] Can't open igate.log
Ubuntu 9.10 Xastir 1.9.4 Tried to open /home/.xastir/logs/igate.log Got an error message... (gedit) Could not open the file /home/.xastir/logs/igate.log gedit has been unable to detect the character coding Neither UTF-8 or ISO-8859-15 seem to work I thought it should be plain text. Any ideas? maybe it's corrupt as we've had some power flicks. -- 73 de Norm, VK3XCI Mildura, Australia The Wintersun City QF15bt. ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@lists.xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] Can't open igate.log
Is Xastir still running? The file may be locked and/or still not fully written to disk if the app is still open. -Original Message- From: xastir-boun...@lists.xastir.org [mailto:xastir-boun...@lists.xastir.org] On Behalf Of Norm, VK3XCI Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 14:32 To: Xastir - APRS client software discussion Subject: [Xastir] Can't open igate.log Ubuntu 9.10 Xastir 1.9.4 Tried to open /home/.xastir/logs/igate.log Got an error message... (gedit) Could not open the file /home/.xastir/logs/igate.log gedit has been unable to detect the character coding Neither UTF-8 or ISO-8859-15 seem to work I thought it should be plain text. Any ideas? maybe it's corrupt as we've had some power flicks. -- 73 de Norm, VK3XCI Mildura, Australia The Wintersun City QF15bt. ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@lists.xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@lists.xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] Can't open igate.log
On Fri, 19 Feb 2010, Norm, VK3XCI wrote: Ubuntu 9.10 Xastir 1.9.4 Tried to open /home/.xastir/logs/igate.log Where's your login name in that path? The path should be something like this on Linux: /home/loginname/.xastir/logs/igate.log Check .xastir/config/xastir.cnf to see if some paths in there got messed up. -- Curt, WE7U. http://www.eskimo.com/~archer APRS: Where it's at!http://www.xastir.org Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system! ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@lists.xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] Can't open igate.log
Thanks David, but no. Shut down xastir and rebooted to make sure all buffers were empty, still no joy. I've renamed the old file and started a new log, which is perfectly readable. We had some power dropouts the last few days and I've had to restart the box several times. Guess I've got a corrupt file. I'll try vim when I can steel myself to it, but I don't hold much hope. 73 de Norm, VK3XCI Mildura, Australia The Wintersun City QF15bt. David Flood wrote: Is Xastir still running? The file may be locked and/or still not fully written to disk if the app is still open. -Original Message- From: xastir-boun...@lists.xastir.org [mailto:xastir-boun...@lists.xastir.org] On Behalf Of Norm, VK3XCI Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 14:32 To: Xastir - APRS client software discussion Subject: [Xastir] Can't open igate.log Ubuntu 9.10 Xastir 1.9.4 Tried to open /home/.xastir/logs/igate.log Got an error message... (gedit) Could not open the file /home/.xastir/logs/igate.log gedit has been unable to detect the character coding Neither UTF-8 or ISO-8859-15 seem to work I thought it should be plain text. Any ideas? maybe it's corrupt as we've had some power flicks. -- 73 de Norm, VK3XCI Mildura, Australia The Wintersun City QF15bt. ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@lists.xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] Can't open igate.log
You are correct Curt, I'm using a GUI filebrowser which takes me straight to /home/vk3xci/... when I click on the Home Folder shortcut. In my defence I've had a week of decontaminating Windows boxes and it has impaired my thought processes. The file is in the correct directory, ie. /home/vk3xci/.xastir/logs/igate.log I've renamed it and started a new igate.log, which is perfectly readable. Also backups of the original are readable up to Monday night. We had some power glitches during the week so I guess the file has got corrupted. Not really a problem but it would be good to back it up more often 73 de Norm, VK3XCI Mildura, Australia The Wintersun City QF15bt. Curt, WE7U wrote: On Fri, 19 Feb 2010, Norm, VK3XCI wrote: Ubuntu 9.10 Xastir 1.9.4 Tried to open /home/.xastir/logs/igate.log Where's your login name in that path? The path should be something like this on Linux: /home/loginname/.xastir/logs/igate.log Check .xastir/config/xastir.cnf to see if some paths in there got messed up. No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.733 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2695 - Release Date: 02/18/10 18:34:00 ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@lists.xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] Can't open igate.log
Norm, Do you use Midnight Commander as a file manager? sudo apt-get install mc If you ever used Norton Commander in the good old days of DOS, using MC will be immediately obvious to you. It's the same apart fro o/s differences. There's also a Windows Commander for Windows users. Ray vk2tv Norm, VK3XCI wrote: Thanks David, but no. Shut down xastir and rebooted to make sure all buffers were empty, still no joy. I've renamed the old file and started a new log, which is perfectly readable. We had some power dropouts the last few days and I've had to restart the box several times. Guess I've got a corrupt file. I'll try vim when I can steel myself to it, but I don't hold much hope. 73 de Norm, VK3XCI Mildura, Australia The Wintersun City QF15bt. David Flood wrote: Is Xastir still running? The file may be locked and/or still not fully written to disk if the app is still open. -Original Message- From: xastir-boun...@lists.xastir.org [mailto:xastir-boun...@lists.xastir.org] On Behalf Of Norm, VK3XCI Sent: Thursday, February 18, 2010 14:32 To: Xastir - APRS client software discussion Subject: [Xastir] Can't open igate.log Ubuntu 9.10 Xastir 1.9.4 Tried to open /home/.xastir/logs/igate.log Got an error message... (gedit) Could not open the file /home/.xastir/logs/igate.log gedit has been unable to detect the character coding Neither UTF-8 or ISO-8859-15 seem to work I thought it should be plain text. Any ideas? maybe it's corrupt as we've had some power flicks. -- 73 de Norm, VK3XCI Mildura, Australia The Wintersun City QF15bt. ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@lists.xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@lists.xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
Re: [Xastir] Can't open igate.log Resolved
Thanks Ray, I did the True Believer thing and opened the file with cat, then vim. both swallowed it no trouble. Renamed the file with a .txt and OOo Writer had no trouble either. gEdit still won't so something in there it doesn't like (towards the end of the file I think.) Tonite for fun I'll do the old half split thing and see if I can locate the bad bytes, so to speak. Meanwhile I found what I needed to make a claim on my electricity provider... but thats another story Enjoy your weekend 73 de Norm, VK3XCI Mildura, Australia The Wintersun City QF15bt. Ray Wells wrote: Norm, I just enabled igate logging on xastir 1.9.6, compiled on Debian v4.08 and it produces a plain text file. My 1.9.6 compiled on Kubuntu 9.04 is a tail end system using xastir's server port to the main system so there's no igate traffic to log. Ray vk2tv Norm, VK3XCI wrote: Ubuntu 9.10 Xastir 1.9.4 Tried to open /home/.xastir/logs/igate.log Got an error message... (gedit) Could not open the file /home/.xastir/logs/igate.log gedit has been unable to detect the character coding Neither UTF-8 or ISO-8859-15 seem to work I thought it should be plain text. Any ideas? maybe it's corrupt as we've had some power flicks. ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@lists.xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.733 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2695 - Release Date: 02/18/10 18:34:00 ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@lists.xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
