On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 5:20 PM, Richard Morse <[email protected]> wrote: > > One caveat; it is not necessarily the case that an application will reload > its defaults while running. iCal may; I don't know. However, in general you > need to restart an application after modifying defaults -- sometimes you need > to quit the application first! > > It's like editing /etc/ttys; you need to tell init about the changes by `kill > -HUP 1`.
That or use Applescript / System Events, which can be a "friendlier" shutdown than a kill command, as the application will get a chance to properly save buffers, preferences, etc: `osascript -e 'tell application "iCal" to quit'` -- Chris Devers _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
