Re: [elinks-users] elinks.conf file
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 11:10:49AM EDT, Gray, Steve, Wipro wrote: [..] > The reason why I have to use elinks is that I could not get the wget > command to work with zabbix. Did you try ‘curl’, a stable, mature, etc. alternative to wget. Homepage: http://curl.haxx.se It should be packaged by your distro and is often less particular than wget. CJ -- ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US! ___ elinks-users mailing list elinks-users@linuxfromscratch.org http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/elinks-users
Re: [elinks-users] elinks.conf file
Hello,
I followed your advice and examples and was able to get elinks to run, and all
is okay. I moved the elinks directory to a more appropriate place, my home
directory and I changed my .profile with the correct variables. Since I did
not need an elinks.conf file, although I still can't get man to work, but that
is very minor. I placed the –no-home option in the command and that worked
perfectly. And by the way, I did realize why I got that error
“ERROR at home.c:149: Unable to find or create ELinks config directory. Please
check if you have $HOME variable set correctly and if you have write permission
to your home directory”
Thanks for explaining that to me.
The reason why I have to use elinks is that I could not get the wget command to
work with zabbix. I did follow your example in the earlier email and was able
to run wget and I did retrieve data. I wanted to use that in my UserParameter
configuration in zabbix to monitor nginx. But for some reason zabbix does not
like the wget command, which is why I had to go to elinks. Zabbix has no
issues with elinks I had rather use wget, because we really don’t use elinks
for anything else, but with zabbix not supporting wget, I had no choice but to
use elinks.
By the way , is there a way to capture the results from elinks and place it in
a file.
Sorry to have bothered you and thanks so much for all of the valuable help.
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[mailto:elinks-users-boun...@linuxfromscratch.org] On Behalf Of Fabienne
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Sent: Monday, July 16, 2012 2:41 PM
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Subject: Re: [elinks-users] elinks.conf file
Le lundi 16 juillet 2012, Gray, Steve, Wipro a écrit :
> Hello,
> I do have my variable exported in my .profile. Plus, I did try to use
> the -config-dir option. In my configuration (along with other stuff),
> I have --prefix=/opt/tribily/bin/elinks \
> -config-dir="/opt/tribily/bin/elinks" \
>
> But I get the error: configure: error: unrecognized option:
> -config-dir=/opt/tribily/bin/elinks
> Try `./configure --help' for more information.
>
> And when I run the "./configure --help", there is no information about
> the "-config-dir" option. How do I set up that option? I would like
> to be in a position where I can use either the wget command or use elinks.
You are confusing different things:
– The compilation options, which you pass to the ./configure script that you run
before compiling with make.
They are listed by ./configure --help and --prefix is one of them. Some of
them (but not --prefix) can also be set in the features.conf file. They are
used to specify what features you want to enable and where you want to install
the files created. They are needed only for compilation and installation, you
don’t need to have access to them afterwards (but you can find what options
you used by grepping for ./configure in config.log, and if you compile several
times without running ./configure in between the same options will be used
each time).
– The runtime options, which you pass to the elinks executable, -config-dir is
one of them.
They are documented in elinks’s manpage. Note that the syntax is slightly
different from that of ./configure options: you have to write -config-dir
/opt/tribily/bin/elinks, without an equal sign.
– The options stored (by default) in the configuration file elinks.conf, which
you can edit manually or by using the options manager available in elinks’s
menu. They are the same as the "Preferences" or "Settings" that you find in
most graphical programs.
So to use the -config-dir option you have to add it to the command line in
the script, so it becomes (split on several lines for readability):
/opt/tribily/bin/elinks/src/elinks -config-dir /opt/tribily/bin/elinks \
-source "http://$HOST:$PORT/nginx_status"; \
| grep 'Reading' | awk '{print $2}
With this you don’t need to set the ELINKS_CONFDIR variable anymore.
But if I understand correctly, you don’t really need to use that particular
configuration directory, you could just let elinks use the default value, it
will create a .elinks directory in your $HOME and store some files there. You
can even disable that with the -no-home option, because for your usage you
don’t need to store bookmarks, history, cookies, etc.
Actually, you may not need to use --prefix either, since it is only useful
when you install the files (with "make install"), and it seems that you are
compiling in /opt/tribily/bin/elinks and directly using the executable without
installing it. But if I were you, I would rather (assuming you have the
necessary permissions):
– Move the whole /opt/tribily/bin/elinks directory elsewhere, because I would
expect /opt/tribily/bin t
Re: [elinks-users] elinks.conf file
Le lundi 16 juillet 2012, Gray, Steve, Wipro a écrit :
> Hello,
> I do have my variable exported in my .profile. Plus, I did try to use
> the -config-dir option. In my configuration (along with other stuff),
> I have --prefix=/opt/tribily/bin/elinks \
> -config-dir="/opt/tribily/bin/elinks" \
>
> But I get the error: configure: error: unrecognized option:
> -config-dir=/opt/tribily/bin/elinks
> Try `./configure --help' for more information.
>
> And when I run the "./configure --help", there is no information about the
> "-config-dir" option. How do I set up that option? I would like to be in
> a position where I can use either the wget command or use elinks.
You are confusing different things:
– The compilation options, which you pass to the ./configure script that you
run
before compiling with make.
They are listed by ./configure --help and --prefix is one of them. Some of
them (but not --prefix) can also be set in the features.conf file. They are
used to specify what features you want to enable and where you want to
install
the files created. They are needed only for compilation and installation, you
don’t need to have access to them afterwards (but you can find what options
you used by grepping for ./configure in config.log, and if you compile
several
times without running ./configure in between the same options will be used
each time).
– The runtime options, which you pass to the elinks executable, -config-dir is
one of them.
They are documented in elinks’s manpage. Note that the syntax is slightly
different from that of ./configure options: you have to write -config-dir
/opt/tribily/bin/elinks, without an equal sign.
– The options stored (by default) in the configuration file elinks.conf, which
you can edit manually or by using the options manager available in elinks’s
menu. They are the same as the "Preferences" or "Settings" that you find in
most graphical programs.
So to use the -config-dir option you have to add it to the command line in
the script, so it becomes (split on several lines for readability):
/opt/tribily/bin/elinks/src/elinks -config-dir /opt/tribily/bin/elinks \
-source "http://$HOST:$PORT/nginx_status"; \
| grep 'Reading' | awk '{print $2}
With this you don’t need to set the ELINKS_CONFDIR variable anymore.
But if I understand correctly, you don’t really need to use that particular
configuration directory, you could just let elinks use the default value, it
will create a .elinks directory in your $HOME and store some files there. You
can even disable that with the -no-home option, because for your usage you
don’t
need to store bookmarks, history, cookies, etc.
Actually, you may not need to use --prefix either, since it is only useful
when you install the files (with "make install"), and it seems that you are
compiling in /opt/tribily/bin/elinks and directly using the executable without
installing it. But if I were you, I would rather (assuming you have the
necessary permissions):
– Move the whole /opt/tribily/bin/elinks directory elsewhere, because I would
expect /opt/tribily/bin to contain binary files related to tribily rather
than
the sources of another program, so I’d put this directory directly in /opt,
or
/opt/src, or my home directory if nobody else needs to have access to the
sources.
– Configure and compile elinks with --prefix=/opt, or --prefix=/usr/local, or
--prefix=$HOME if I want to install it for myself only, and install it.
– Check that /opt/bin, or /usr/local/bin, or $HOME/bin, is in the $PATH, and
that /opt/share/man, or /usr/local/share/man, or $HOME/share/man is in the
$MANPATH.
If you do that, you can then use elinks like any other program, without
having to tell explicitly to the shell where to find it, so in your script you
can replace "/opt/tribily/bin/elinks/src/elinks" with simply "elinks".
One further remark: I read again the error message you got, which was:
> ERROR at home.c:149: Unable to find or create ELinks config directory. Please
> check if you have $HOME variable set correctly and if you have write
> permission to your home directory
This message means that ELinks was trying to access the $HOME of the user
it
was running as (the message would have been different if it was trying to
access
/opt/tribily/bin/elinks), so we can deduce from this:
– that it didn’t have access to the ELINKS_CONFDIR variable;
– that it either didn’t find the $HOME, or couldn’t write to it.
So there must be a problem somewhere, which user is your script running as?
If it’s you, the $HOME variable must have been modified somewhere, if it’s
a user with no $HOME where it can write, then it changes a little what I wrote
above (where I assumed that the script was run by a regular user, with a $HOME,
etc.): it can’t access your .profile, $PATH, etc., so if you want to set
variables you have to do so in the script or chang
Re: [elinks-users] elinks.conf file
Hello,
Although I am using elinks for a particular purpose and nothing else, I would
like to get this to work. The script works fine, it just that I can't get that
past that elinks config directory problem.
I do have my variable exported in my .profile. Plus, I did try to use the
-config-dir option. In my configuration (along with other stuff), I have
--prefix=/opt/tribily/bin/elinks \
-config-dir="/opt/tribily/bin/elinks" \
But I get the error: configure: error: unrecognized option:
-config-dir=/opt/tribily/bin/elinks
Try `./configure --help' for more information.
And when I run the "./configure --help", there is no information about the
"-config-dir" option. How do I set up that option? I would like to be in a
position where I can use either the wget command or use elinks.
Thanks for your help
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From: elinks-users-boun...@linuxfromscratch.org
[mailto:elinks-users-boun...@linuxfromscratch.org] On Behalf Of Fabienne
Ducroquet
Sent: Friday, July 13, 2012 8:09 PM
To: ELinks text WWW browser users mailing list
Subject: Re: [elinks-users] elinks.conf file
Le vendredi 13 juillet 2012, Gray, Steve, Wipro a écrit :
> Hello,
Hi,
> In my .profile I have the variable ELINKS_CONFDIR set.
> "ELINKS_CONFDIR=/opt/tribily/bin/elinks".
Is the variable exported to the environment (with "export ELINKS_CONFDIR"
or "export ELINKS_CONFDIR=/opt/tribily/bin/elinks" to do everything in one
time)? Otherwise it can’t be read from your script.
You could also use the -config-dir option of elinks if you don’t need
ELINKS_CONFDIR for anything else.
> The /opt/tribily/bin/elinks/elinks.conf file has permissions of 777.
666 should suffice since it’s not supposed to be executed anyway (or even
644 for more safety, it is not saved automatically by ELinks so you only need
to be able to read it), but you should check the permissions of the
/opt/tribily/bin/elinks directory.
> I am using elinks in a script that will monitor nginx, i.e.
> "/opt/tribily/bin/elinks/src/elinks -source "http://$HOST:$PORT/nginx_status";
> | grep 'Reading' | awk '{print $2}'"
If you only want to do that, you can do it with wget, with something like:
wget --quiet --output-document=- "http://$HOST:$PORT/nginx_status"; | grep
'Reading' | awk '{print $2}'
Well, the command line is not really simpler, but wget only retrieves files,
while ELinks has a lot of other features that you are not using anyway.
Regards
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Re: [elinks-users] elinks.conf file
Le vendredi 13 juillet 2012, Gray, Steve, Wipro a écrit :
> Hello,
Hi,
> In my .profile I have the variable ELINKS_CONFDIR set.
> "ELINKS_CONFDIR=/opt/tribily/bin/elinks".
Is the variable exported to the environment (with "export ELINKS_CONFDIR"
or "export ELINKS_CONFDIR=/opt/tribily/bin/elinks" to do everything in one
time)? Otherwise it can’t be read from your script.
You could also use the -config-dir option of elinks if you don’t need
ELINKS_CONFDIR for anything else.
> The /opt/tribily/bin/elinks/elinks.conf file has permissions of 777.
666 should suffice since it’s not supposed to be executed anyway (or even
644 for more safety, it is not saved automatically by ELinks so you only
need to be able to read it), but you should check the permissions of the
/opt/tribily/bin/elinks directory.
> I am using elinks in a script that will monitor nginx, i.e.
> "/opt/tribily/bin/elinks/src/elinks -source "http://$HOST:$PORT/nginx_status";
> | grep 'Reading' | awk '{print $2}'"
If you only want to do that, you can do it with wget, with something like:
wget --quiet --output-document=- "http://$HOST:$PORT/nginx_status"; | grep
'Reading' | awk '{print $2}'
Well, the command line is not really simpler, but wget only retrieves
files, while ELinks has a lot of other features that you are not using
anyway.
Regards
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