Re: [Evolution] how to setup a different path of '.evolution' directory

[Reid Thompson <Reid Thompson ateb com>]

Muhammad Sharfuddin wrote:
>     I dont want to save the emails in the '.evolution' directory of every user's home directory
>
>     We have an NFS server with /evo exported, under /evo there are directories for every user.
>
>     on each client machine /evo(of nfs server) is mounted under /mails 
>
>     I want to save the emails/calenders etc under /mails/username directory.
>
>     I mean want like the following
>
>     /mails/john/.evolution
>
>     /mails/ron/.evolution
>
>     /mails/james/.evolution
>
>     is it possible ?
>
>     Regards
>
>
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something along the lines of...

shutdown all users evolution
move all users .evolution to .evoloution.hold
for each user
ln -s /mails/john/.evolution /home/john/.evolution
ln -s /mails/ron/.evolution /home/ron/.evolution
...
for each user
mv .evolution.hold/* /home/$user/.evolution

or you can use tar rather than renaming and mv'ing....