Questions Regarding Backup and Stopping Gnucash

[Derek Atkins]

Mark,

Mark Phillips <mark at phillipsmarketing.biz> writes:

> Derek,
>
> As the OP, I would like to jump in here as the topic has drifted away from my
> original post. My original question has morphed slightly into - what is the
> recommended way to stop gnucash from the command line on Linux? In other
> words, if I want to have a backup script kill gnucash at 3 AM because I forgot
> to stop it, is there a recommended way to do it?

No, there is not.  Pretty much the only way to stop gnucash "cleanly" is
to issue it a "Quit" command, either via the Menu (File -> Quit) or
Keyboard (Ctrl-Q).  But this begs the question of why you would want to
force-quit GnuCash at 3am?  Or even why you feel you NEED to shut it
down?

> Thanks,
>
> Mark

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-derek

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