On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 11:26 +1100, Andrew Greig wrote:
> Hi Paul,
>
> I have tried to sort out the gpilotd and also kpilot, as the korganizer
> has come a long way forward. But neither Evo-pliot nor kpilot would
> sync. I fired up jpilot and it worked beautifully. I ran through my
> contacts on the desktop and deleted the duplicates, then I synched with
> the Pilot and all of the duplicates in the Palm were deleted as well. I
> added some Calendar events and tasks and added an extra address, and
> synched again, fantastic -- perfect, I even caught the fact that it was
> updating AvantGo (something I do not use due to a lack of local
> channels). So I guess the question needs to be asked " What can the
> Evo-pilot authors steal from jpilot?" cos it works and Evo does not.
Better documentation would have probably reduced the number of
complaints I have seen Web-wide...
> I have been a loyal and vigorous advocate of Evoution
me too...
> since before it
> was 1.0, I think that 1.2 was excellent, 1.4.6 not too shabby, but I
> have had more difficulties with Evo 2 than just the pilot deal.
same here...
> Maybe
> by 2.5 it will all be OK again. In the meantime, for my business sake I
> will have to use jpilot as my scheduling tool, and Evo or Mozilla as my
> mail client.
This is what I came up with. It works for me:
1. Create a script that executes gpilotd and place it in
~/Desktop/Autostart. (This script tests if gpilotd is already running so
as not to start it again.):
#!/bin/sh
GPILOTD_RUNNING=3D`/bin/ps -A | grep gpilotd`
#check to see if gpilotd is already running
if [ ! -z "$GPILOTD_RUNNING" ]
then
#start gpilotd -- where it's located in FC3
exec /usr/libexec/gpilotd >> ~/gpilotd.log 2>&1
else
#don't bother, gpilotd is already running
echo "gpilotd already running" >> ~/gpilotd.log 2>&1
fi
#End of script
Make it executable, restart X or drop back to your session manager and
log back in. gpilotd will be running and ready to let your Palm device
sync with Evo!
Now I sync every time, with Evo open or not.
Hope this helps you reconsider Evo, Andrew.
Paul
(a happier Evo user, now)
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