On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 11:49 -0600, Greg Oliver wrote: > On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 10:16 -0500, Dan Williams wrote: > > On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 04:26 -0600, Greg Oliver wrote: > > > I always keep my /home directory on a separate partition for upgrade > > > purposes. Lately, I have noticed that certain gnome applets, etc are > > > not available due to old settings under .gconf. > > > > > > The only think I really care abou tare the 100+ vpnc conections I have. > > > What is the proper way to back them up and restore after I upgrade > > > gnome? > > > > With 0.6.x, right? > > > > You should be able to do something like: > > > > gconftool-2 --dump /system/networking/vpn_connections > > > vpn-connection-backup.xml > > > > then to restore after upgrade/clean-install, do: > > > > gconftool-2 --load vpn-connection-backup.xml > > > > Dan > > > > Well, I spoke too soon - the export and import both looked ok, and it > re-populated the ~/.gconf/system/networking/vpn_connections subdir, but > they are not showing up in the nm-applet. File permissions are all > correct, etc.. > > Only thing I did was upgrade from 0.6.5 to 0.7 (Ubuntu to Fedora8) due > to wanting to try the new features in 0.7.. > > Would that cause any issues?
Yes, the VPN settings are now stored in the same format now as all other connections with NM, which are under /system/networking/connections. The NM code will convert the wireless connections, but not the VPN connections. Dan _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
