Re: [Evolution-hackers] Evo 2.0 -- syncing 2 computers

[Matt Price <matt price utoronto ca>]

On Thu, Oct 14, 2004 at 04:15:56PM +0200, Guille -bisho- wrote:
> >> #!/bin/sh
> >> #/usr/local/bin/evo-wrapper
> >> ssh anarres -e evolution --force-shutdown
> >> evolution --force-shutdown
> >> rsync -avzb anarres:~/.evolution/ ~/.evolution
> >> rsync -avzb anarres:~/.gconf/apps/evolution/ ~/.gconf/apps/evolution
> >> /usr/bin/evolution-2.0
> >> evolution --force-shutdown
> >> rsync -azvb ~/.evolution anarres:~/.evolution
> >> rsync -avzb ~/.gconf/apps/evolution/ anarres:~/.gconf/apps/evolution
> >> 
> >> .. hmmm...  still doesn't seem to work!  Am I missing something
> >> essential about, say, how evolution-data-server works?  
> >> 
> >gconfd should also not be running on the machine you're copying the
> >files too, or it won't notice the new values in the .gconf directory.
> 
> With gconf-tool-2 -dump and a -load you could sync the conf without stoping
> the confd.
> 
> ssh anarres gconftool-2 --dump /apps/evolution > gconf-evo.dump.xml
> gconftool-2 --load=gconf-evo.dump.xml
> 

hey, that's a great trick, thank you both!  I will try that when I get
back home to the other computer.  

Matt

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