On Sat, 2005-07-02 at 14:20 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > On Sat, 2005-07-02 at 10:07 -0400, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: > > 1. the reason you need to shut it down is because gconfd stores the > > settings in memory and it is impossible to make sure that all settings > > have been synced to disk without shutting it down first. > > > > As far as the destination machine goes, it needs to have gconfd shut > > down because it will have any settings it knows about in memory and if > > you replace the settings files while it is running, it won't recognise > > that they have changed underneath it which may cause you much grief. > > That's terrible. So if my system crashes and burns, any gconf changes > are lost? > > Any reason it can't sync to disk once in a while?
Valid point. However, how often do you make such changes? -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail. I had a crush on Elisabeth Sladen
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