Re: [Evolution] Re: Shareing a calendar

[Christian Borup <borup borup com>]

On s?, 2003-06-08 at 16:13, Martin Skjöldebrand wrote:
> > > 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?

I that case "evolution --force-shutdown" should shut everything down.

./borup