That shows my age. Linus Pauling was imprinted into my brain in the 1960's.
On Tue, Feb 22, 2022 at 4:22 PM Geoff <cleanoutmys...@gmail.com> wrote: > Good one David, you have made my day! I am nominating you for the Answer > of the Month Award. > > ;--)) > > Geoff > ===== > P.S. Is it true that Linus Torvalds was one of Linus Pauling's friends too? > > On 23/02/2022 6:50 am, David Carlson wrote: > > > > It is not a secret location known only to Linus Pauling and a few of his > > friends. > > > > >>> much to ensure ALL my data is backed up. So I hit upon the idea of > >> running > >>> the tool under a custom value of $HOME, but I was then shocked to > >> discover > >>> that even with this method, gnucash was able to remember previous > >> locations > >>> of my database file, which suggests that the tool is also using some > kind > >>> of other mechanism to save historical data, and that makes me very > >> nervous > >>> about actually being able to do proper backups of everything related to > >> the > >>> tool. > >>> Doing some sleuthing using strace, I was able to find the previous > >> database > >>> location delivered through some socket connection, and that really > scares > >>> me, since it is now possible critical data is stored via some other > Linux > >>> service and I will have no way to trace out where this may be to avoid > >>> future nasty surprises. > >>> I have not seen any documentation about backup strategies other than > the > >>> aromatic saving of previous data files, yet I do see that there was > data > >>> being stored at least in ~/.local, so I'm hoping someone on this list > may > >>> be able to point me to some more thorough discussion of ALL the places > >> user > >>> data from gnucash may be stored. > -- David Carlson _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
