<quote who="James Gregory">
> But it occurs to me that somewhere, somehow there has to be a network
> solution to this. Does anyone know of one? I know you can use LDAP to
> store netscape settings, which is lovely, but I'm looking for something a
> bit more general.
Generally it's called NFS home directories, but that's kinda hard
sometimes... ;-) Some people use CVS to do this. I tried for a while, but
got pissed off with it.
> I suspect that no such thing exists since as far as I know there aren't
> any really commonly used libraries for accessing configuration
> information (Is this what gnome-conf does? Are there patches for
> existing software to read configuration from gnome-conf?)
GConf could do it, but you'd have to impliment the network backend for it
(someone's half done an LDAP one, ACAP has been proposed), and you'd have to
patch other software to use it, which isn't always easy.
Man, if I could GConf-enable mutt... whoa.
> Is there a better solution than scp? I guess there's CVS. It all sounds
> a bit messy though. Are user-level filesystems the way to go?
Maybe intermezzo would be cool for this, but you'd be syncing a file system,
not just a bunch of files. Not sure how helpful a user-level filesystem
would be.
- Jeff
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