Interesting tactic. Will try your technique. Will also try manually adding the .purple folder to the index in the preferences section. I know it says it doesn't index folders starting with a ".", but maybe if I add it manually, it will.
Bhagwad On Apr 18, 11:44 am, Sharad Birmiwal <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 7:38 AM, sid <[email protected]> wrote: > > > pidgin logs are stored as hidden directories on the home folder > > under .purple. The logs are stored in text/html format so GDS can > > easily index them. > > > But the problem is GDS does not index inside hiddeb directories. One > > solution was to make a copy of the logs somewhere outside the hidden > > directory for GDS to access and index. But how does one do a regular > > periodic process something like a cron job. > > > Any idea? > > do this in your home directory instead. > > ~$ ln -sf .purple purple > > That'll create a link to the directory which is not hidden. Better > yet, do this instead. > > ~$ ln -sf .purple/logs purple-logs > > SB --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Linux User Group @ IIT Delhi" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/iitdlug?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
