GE problems

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 31 October 2012 22:21:41 Tom H did opine:

> On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 8:27 PM, Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 31 October 2012 20:22:01 Tom H did opine:
> >> On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 2:52 PM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> >>> On 10/31/2012 02:34 AM, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >>>> What the heck is /etc/mailname? Never heard of nor seen it.
> >>> 
> >>> $ locate mailname
> >>> /etc/mailname
> >>> /usr/share/man/man5/mailname.5.gz
> >>> 
> >>> http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/precise/man5/mailname.5.html
> >>> 
> >>> foo at bar $ cat /etc/mailname
> >>> should result in:
> >>> bar
> >> 
> >> "/etc/mailname" is a Debianism for setting the box/domain from which
> >> an email originates when you run "dpkg-reconfigure <mta>" that's
> >> created by one of the postfix (for example) installation scripts
> >> (IIRC, from "hostname -f").
> > 
> > Mmmm, 1. I don't use postfix.
> > 2. hostname -f spits out the local name, but no email would ever
> > reach me at that FQDN, my local network is natted behind a dd-wrt
> > router. The address in my sig is equally worthless for email
> > purposes.
> 
> (To add what I said about mailname and MTAs, I think that
> mutt/mailx/... also use/need/... "/etc/mailname".)
> 
> I looked at the Lucid make-googleearth script. The "cat /etc/mailname"
> message is just an error because there's no check for the existence of
> "/etc/mailname" before running 'SYS_MAILNAME="$(cat /etc/mailname)"'
> but its non-existence's later worked around with
> 'OPT_EMAIL="${DEBEMAIL:-$(whoami)@${SYS_MAILNAME:-$(hostname)}}"'.
> 
> The reason that there's parsing for an email address is that it's
> needed for the control file.
> 
> Although I don't think that your "Permission denied" has to do with
> the script itself, check:
> Is lsb-core installed?
> Can you build the package with "--force"?
> Does using "--verbose" give you more information?
> 
> I can download GoogleEarthLinux.bin from [1] without a problem.
> 
> IMO, the "Permission denied" error is local. You're not in "~/gene" in
> the output that you posted, you're in "/CoCo".
> 
That shouldn't be a problem, I own that directory tree too.

> 1. http://dl.google.com/earth/client/current/GoogleEarthLinux.bin

In any event, I did get it working, but it hates command line location 
arguments.

Cheers, Gene
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