Dan Nicholson wrote:
On 7/2/06, rblythe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I googled around a bit and found where someone had posted that doing
this kind of thing as a root user will make the Thunderbird package from
the system I attempted this on (not BLFS specific, just in general)
would be inoperable. I was able to access all of the e-mails as the
root user, but not as the normal user. The only reason I was root user
in the first place was per the BLFS instruction to run
/user/bin/thunderbird as root "to create additional files in the
usr/lib/thunderbird-1.5.0.2 directory.
I'm not really sure what the problem is as you've described it. But
if you just want to point your profile somewhere else, you can try
this.
$ cat ~/.thunderbird/profiles.ini
[General]
StartWithLastProfile=1
[Profile0]
Name=default
IsRelative=1
Path=1elsrg7x.default
Try changing [Profile0] to "IsRelative=0" and "Path" to the location
of the shared profile. As long as your user has write privelages, then
it should work. Actually, I haven't tried this, but that's what seems
like the correct thing to do.
--
Dan
When I try this, I get a message when I restart Thunderbird that says an
instance of Thunderbird is already running and that I should close that
one and try again. I then completely reboot the system and try again
but I get the same message.
I tried changing profiles.ini as a normal user and as root and I get the
same results.
I still have access to all of my e-mails (old and new) and I think I am
just going to start over with a NEW shared e-mail storage area and try
again. If I figure this out, I will definitely post my results.
Thanks,
rblythe
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