How often does gnucash update stock quote?

[John Ralls]

On Dec 26, 2012, at 4:12 PM, Chris Henderson <henders254 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I am tracking some stocks in two different stock market in two
> different time zones. Does gnucash update stock quote in real time
> while it's open and when the stock market is open for that time zone
> or do I need to go to tools - price editor - get quotes every time I
> need an updated price or does gnucash update stock quote every time I
> open and close the application itself?
> 
> I have noticed section 8.6.3.2. of
> http://gnucash.org/docs/v2.4/C/gnucash-guide/invest-stockprice1.html
> but if I do
> 
> /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS/Gnucash --add-price-quotes ~/foobar
> Don't have write access to /Library
> dyld: DYLD_ environment variables being ignored because main
> executable (/bin/ps) is setuid or setgid
> Application Path /Applications/Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS/Gnucash-bin
> Found Finance::Quote version 1.18
> 
> cat ~/foobar
> cat: /Users/tanman/foobar: No such file or directory
> 

"foobar" needs to be a Gnucash account file which contains commodities set up for quote retrieval.

Regards,
John Ralls