xfskin and freebsd

[David Wijnants]

I suspect you've extracted the wrong column from the (default) ps
output. Have a look on the man page for the -o option; this lets you
select your own columns in any order you want (probably just pid).

Dave.


PS. Tcl ! I like it.


James Tappin wrote:
> 
> On Monday 04 March 2002 12:03, you wrote:
> > On Sat, 02 Mar 2002 10:55:09 +0100
> > "Giancarlo Rosso" <giancarlo_rosso at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hmm. i tried to make the restart function platform independant, didn't work
> > i guess. All xfskin tries to do is restart your XFCE, to re-read your
> > config files For now, you can comment out the restartXFCE function (line
> > 440 in xfskin), and restart XFCE manual. (to comment out, place a # as
> > first char in the line)
> > Meanwhile i'll try to find a way to make the restarts function platform
> > dependant.
> >
> > > I just downloaded xfskin from yahoo, and i cannot make it work.
> > > When i try to install a theme i get this error:
> > >
> > > kill: illegal process id: gianca
> > > kill: illegal process id: gianca
> > >     while executing
> > > "exec kill -USR1 $pid"
> > >     (procedure "restartXFCE" line 6)
> > >     invoked from within
> > > "restartXFCE"
> > >     (procedure "put_config" line 17)
> > >     invoked from within
> > > "put_config"
> > >     invoked from within
> > > ".buttons.install invoke"
> > >     ("uplevel" body line 1)
> > >     invoked from within
> > > "uplevel #0 [list $w invoke]"
> > >     (procedure "tkButtonUp" line 7)
> > >     invoked from within
> > > "tkButtonUp .buttons.install
> > > "
> > >     (command bound to event)
> > >
> > > I changed ps option from "-u" to "-U", but i got more error.
> > > What is it?
> > > Thanx
> > > PS i have FreeBSD 4.5, and tk8.3
> 
> It should be "ps U" not "ps -U" for BSD type systems and "ps -u" for SysV
> systems (Linux supports both, Solaris only SYSV) so you probably need some
> sort of check for which type of system you have.
> 
> James
> 
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