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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
