New LogReport lire package: lire-20010903

[Joost van Baal]

On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 09:21:20AM +0200, Wytze van der Raay wrote:
<snip> 
> to run as root, and concludes with offering the following suggestion:
> 
>    Alternatively, if you don't care about somebody compromising your
>    system, you can add "SKIP_ID_TEST=1" to /root/.lirerc
> 
> So I proceed with creating /root/.lirerc with said content, only to hear:
> 
>    all all none defaults warning you have a file /root/.lirerc . this is
> deprecated. please move its contents to /root/.lire/etc/defaults
> 
> to confuse the innocent ...

Oops.  That's not very nice...

Of course, applying this trivial patch before running ./configure fixes the
problem:

---------------------

joostvb at gelfand:/tmp/test% diff -u lire-20010903/all/etc/defaults.in.orig \
  lire-20010903/all/etc/defaults.in 
--- lire-20010903/all/etc/defaults.in.orig      Thu Sep  6 15:31:36 2001
+++ lire-20010903/all/etc/defaults.in   Thu Sep  6 15:31:51 2001
@@ -369,7 +369,7 @@
 su -c 'cat /path/to/logfile' root | $PROGRAM ...
 
 Alternatively, if you don't care about somebody compromising your
-system, you can add "SKIP_ID_TEST=1" to $HOME/.lirerc
+system, you can add "SKIP_ID_TEST=1" to $HOME/.lire/etc/defaults
 EOF
        exit 1
     fi

---------------------

I just fixed the problem in our cvs, which will bring a new release
at about the end of this month.

Thanks a lot for reporting this bug!

Bye,

Joost


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