Automatic updates

[John Ralls]

On Aug 3, 2010, at 12:16 AM, Mike Evans wrote:

> On Tuesday August 3 2010 04:49:27 John Ralls wrote:
>> On Aug 2, 2010, at 2:20 PM, John Northcott wrote:
>>> Dear sirs,  Yse I am new to LINUX, but have found my way to the terminal
>>> screen and can get myself as a superuser.  I can also get myself to the
>>> library /usr/bin.  What I do not know is what do I type in to run a
>>> program (gnc-fq-update)  I am anxious to see if I can get prices of
>>> stocks listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange ( Canada) I have put the
>>> trail stock in as a fund as I do not know if it is on any other system
>>> you have listed.
>>> Looking forward to your reply, and thanks in advance.  John Northcott.
>> 
>> Well, assuming that you've gotten Gnucash installed somewhere on your path
>> (which should be the case if you used your distribution's package facility
>> to install it), simply typing gnc-fq-update should do it. If it doesn't,
>> try "locate gnc-fq-update" to see where it got put, and then invoke it
>> with a full path (or add that path to $PATH).
>> 
>> This isn't really the place to learn how to use Linux; there are hundreds
>> of websites and dozens of books available that are.
>> 
>> What has any of that to do with automatic updates? (Gnucash doesn't provide
>> automatic updates, if that was a question that you forgot to ask. Some
>> Linux distributions do, but that has nothing to do with us.)
>> 
>> Regards,
>> John Ralls
> 
> I don't think he means automatic updates of GnuCash, I take it he wants share 
> prices to automatically update as described at 
> http://svn.gnucash.org/docs/guide/invest-stockprice1.html.
> 

Ah, got it. Thanks.

Regards,
John Ralls