Re: [Evolution] smtp config file

[Christof Krüger <gnome pop2wap net>]

On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 15:00 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 10:02 -0400, Chris Murphy wrote:
> > cat %gconf.xml | sed s/oldsmtp/newsmtp/g > %gconf.xml
> 
> Dangerous. You're starting two concurrent processes, one reading from a
> file and the other writing *to the same file*. Depending on race
> conditions, some of the time the shell will truncate the file before the
> 'cat' has a chance to read it.
... or use the sed --in-place option (-i, see the man page)

Regrads,
  Christof Krüger