running concurrent gnucashes with one database

[Adrian Mariano]

Unless I have a way of forcing it to quit from another machine
(e.g. logging in and running kill on it), this isn't enough to solve
the problem, really.  Can gnucash give up its lock if you click
"save" so that I could switch to a different invocation without
closing the first one?  

It takes so long to start gnucash that having to be constantly
starting it and quitting it is not appealing.  

On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 12:49:59AM -0500, L. D. James wrote:
> You can place the Gnucash database anywhere and run it from the application
> not much different from the way you run Libreoffice (or Microsoft Word) to
> edit a document.  This includes having the data file on a drop box folder.
> 
> As far as running at the same time, that isn't possible at this time.  One
> user had to use it at a time.  When the one user finishes he has to save his
> changes.  Then the next user (from anywhere) can access the file.
> 
> At present Gnucash doesn't support multiple users.
> 
> -- L. James
> 
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> L. D. James
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> On 01/17/2016 11:59 PM, Adrian Mariano wrote:
> >I have been using gnucash for many years with the database stored on
> >one computer where gnucash must be run.  Lately this has become
> >problematic, so I am wondering if it is possible to put the database
> >somewhere but run gnucash and access the database over the network,
> >possibly with multiple gnucash programs running (and accessing the
> >database) at the same time.
> >
> >I noticed some talk about using SQL with gnucash.  Does SQL provide
> >the capability I'm interested in?  If so, any advice on setting it up
> >under linux?
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