Re: [Evolution] Re: Shareing a calendar

[Martin Skjöldebrand <martin skjoldebrand org>]

On Sun, 2003-06-08 at 10:53, Christian Borup wrote:
> On s?, 2003-06-08 at 10:29, Martin Skjöldebrand wrote:
> > tis 2003-06-10 klockan 05.56 skrev Martin Skjöldebrand:
> > > I want to share a calendar between two users on my box.
> > > Running 1.3.92 I've failed to get it to work, and the mail archives
> > are
> > > empty on the subject.
> > >
> > > I've put the Calendar folder form ~/evolution/local/ on /opt2 and made
> > a
> > > link to the original folder (renaming the original folder). This I did
> > > on both accounts making sure that /opt2/evolution/local/Calendar is
> > > chmoded 777. 
> > >
> > > Still anything entered in one account is not viewable on the other
> > > account. What is going on here? Anyone with any success stories?
> >
> > Apparently it *does* work, kind of.
> > I noticed this when I rebooted my computer, and the calendar info was
> > seen - something apparently has to be restarted for this to work as
> > intended.
>
> You got lucky... You could just as well have ended up with a corrupt
> file.
>
> Wombat, the calendar backend of evolution, is not designed to
> have more than one process accessing the calendar file. In fact the
> Wombat is designed to be that one process that does all the accessing of
> the calendar file, no matter how many frontends are running (the
> frontends will mostly be evolution itself and multisync).
>
> The Wombat keeps all the entries in the calendar in memory, only syncing
> changes to disk once in a while (possibly only on shutdown - I haven't
> checked). 

I see.
However, the accounts are on the same machine. My fiancee and I am
sharing the same box, so only one can be logged in at one time. So, it
should be workable in this setup then. 

I tried killing wombat after exiting Evo but still the same thing
happens. Or rather doesn't. A full restart is required to sync the file
between the different Evo-instances. Mayhaps I need to kill all Evo
related processes after logging out? Then I could put that in an account
rc file?

/M.
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Martin Skjoldebrand
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