Thunderbird signature

[Gene Heskett]

On Sunday 26 December 2004 11:48, John Cox wrote:
>On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 11:36:52 -0500, Claude Jones
>
><claude_jones at levitjames.com> wrote:
>> Dick Roth wrote:
>> > Claude Jones wrote:
>> >> Where is the Thunderbird signature setting? The only thing I
>> >> can find is  a digital signature setting. Is there not a
>> >> provision somewhere to just add a signature to one's posts?
>> >> I've looked through all the settings over and over, and read
>> >> through the help files and faqs on their website but I can't
>> >> find this? Am I blocking the obvious here?
>> >
>> > It's not really all that obvious:
>> >
>> > 1.  Click on "Write",
>> > 2.  Menu:  Edit>Account Settings & look towards the bottom of
>> > the page. It is looking for a text file name.
>>
>> Thanks to all for your quick replies. I did look there many times,
>> and it's not there. My version is 0.9. Perhaps I need to get the
>> Ver 1.0. If that makes sense, is there a way to upgrade without
>> losing my settings? 'Yum upgrade Thunderbird' doesn't seem to be
>> picking it up. Will simply installing 1.0 put it 'on top' of my
>> current version and preserve my mail, settings, and address book?
>>
>> --
>
> You can download the TB1 rpm here:
>http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/
>i386/Fedora/RPMS/
>
>rpm -Uvh and your settings are safe

I also have the tarball on site, but as it ddn't have any installation 
instructions, I didn't know where to put it.  It seemed happy enough 
running right from the directory I unpacked it 
in, /usr/src/thunderbird.

So I got the rpm above, nuked the unpack directory the tarball made  
and installed the rpm & ran ldconfig, but it won't run, either from 
an icon I made, or from the command line, returning to the cli prompt 
in about 1/2 second with no reported errors.  What gives?

The end of the strace shows this:
----------------
open("/root/.thunderbird/init.d/", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|
O_DIRECTORY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
open("/usr/lib/thunderbird-1.0/init.d/", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|
O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECTORY) = 3
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
fcntl64(3, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC)         = 0
getdents64(3, /* 3 entries */, 4096)    = 80
getdents64(3, /* 0 entries */, 4096)    = 0
close(3)                                = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8)  = 0
stat64("/root/.thunderbird/init.d/K*", 0xbfffee70) = -1 ENOENT (No 
such file or directory)
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [CHLD], [], 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8)  = 0
stat64("/usr/lib/thunderbird-1.0/init.d/K*", 0xbfffee70) = -1 ENOENT 
(No such file or directory)
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [CHLD], [], 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8)  = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, NULL, [], 8)  = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, [], NULL, 8) = 0
exit_group(127)                         = ?
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So obviously the rpm didn't init the init.d directory properly.
Can the packager comment please?

>john

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