How often does gnucash update stock quote?

[Chris Henderson]

On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 5:58 PM, prl <prl at ozemail.com.au> wrote:
> On 28/12/12 02:26, John Ralls wrote:
>>
>> 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
>>
> I don't get the "Don't have write access to /Library" error (OS X 10.8.2,
> Gnucash 2.4.11), whether the account file exists or not.
>
> The "DYLD_ environment variables being ignored" warning is innocuous in this
> case (it's a protection against someone hacking the system by having a
> setuid program execute using potentially non-safe dynamic libraries, which
> someone might have put *any* sort of operations in).
>
> Peter

I am not sure what that means, either. But I have pointed it to
Gnucash account file which contains commodities set up for quote
retrieval (which is my gnucash file) and everything is working.