translog files

[John Ralls]

On Feb 13, 2011, at 4:32 PM, Anthony Messina wrote:

> On 02/13/2011 02:44 PM, John Ralls wrote:
>> On Feb 13, 2011, at 10:53 AM, Anthony Messina wrote:
>> 
>>>> I am using gnucash-2.4.0-1.fc14.x86_64 with the PostreSQL backend with
>>>> great success.  Thank you!  However, with each opening of GnuCash, files
>>>> like translog.20110213115640.log are left in my $HOME/Documents folder.
>>>> Are these files supposed to be left in that location or might this be a
>>>> packaging problem? Up to now, I've been deleting the clutter manually.  -A
>> Gnucash isn't writing those, so I expect that Postgresql is. 
>> 
>> Regards,
>> John Ralls
> 
> Thank you very much.  I had never thought of that.  Any idea how to get
> rid of those?  It just seems like a wonderful way to clutter things up ;)
> 

Nope. If you want to use a server back end, it's your job to learn how to administer the server or to hire someone to do it for you.

If you don't have a real need to use a server, it makes more sense to use SQLite3, which doesn't do log files. 

Regards,
John Ralls