It doesn't seem to work - could you let me know if it works for you? Instead, what I've done is, I've renamed ".purple" as "purple", and created a link called ".purple" instead! So GDS indexes the file and pidgin gets redirected. Seems to be working as the folder has already appeared in the index.
Bhagwad On May 10, 11:43 pm, Bhagwad <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ l...@iitd community mailing list -- http://groups.google.com/group/iitdlug -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
