Re: proposed architecture evolutions for GConf

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Joe Baker wrote:
> It might be that all that needs to be done to Gconfd is to allow Orbit 
> to allow TCP connections over Ethernet instead of localhost or Unix sockets.
>
> Can somebody look at the source code and see if this is doable? 
>
> I seem to recall seeing that there is an option for enabling this in 
> /etc/orbitrc.
>
> However, I could never find any documentation about it.
> Can someone clarify  how Orbit, Gconfd interrelate?

gconf stores its ORBit address ("IOR") in its lock directory, which used 
to be in the user's homedir and is now in /tmp by default.

If you move it back to the homedir, and enable TCP in ORBit, it 
theoretically will just work. However, I'm sure nobody has tested it lately.

Havoc