Can't update preferences and can't get rid of Welcome dialog in Gnucash 2.4.7 (OS X 2.6.8)

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On 8/08/11 14:19, John Ralls wrote:
> GConf uses the g_log facility, so I guess the client will be 
> outputting to gnucash.trace, but the daemon will be writing to its 
> stdout. There's a comment in gconfd.c about shipping everything to 
> syslog, but I don't see any code to make that happen.
If GCONF_DEBUG_OUTPUT isn't set, then it looks as though gconfd 
redirects stdin, stdut and stderr to /dev/null, and syslog logging is 
enabled for all the GCL_* logging priorities except GCL_DEBUG. If it's 
set, std{in,out,err} aren't redirected, and all logging is enabled. I 
just can't work out how to make the logging appear somewhere where I can 
read it!
> The shell trick seems to work, but I can't really test it thoroughly 
> right now since the markets are closed and prices aren't changing. 
> I'll whack on it a bit tomorrow. As for the little-known regex 
> argument to expr, I sure didn't know about it. Thanks! (BTW, according 
> to expr(1), the leading ^ isn't necessary: it's implied anyway.) 
> Regards, John Ralls 
No problem. Using sed and needing to use backticks as well as double 
quotes was never going to make life easy. I didn't notice in the man 
page for expr that its regexp was left anchored. But it appears that 
having the ^ left anchor symbol doesn't do any harm, either.

Regards,
Peter