[GNC] Linus Pauling's friends

[Geoff]

Good one David, you have made my day! I am nominating you for the Answer 
of the Month Award.

;--))

Geoff
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P.S. Is it true that Linus Torvalds was one of Linus Pauling's friends too?

On 23/02/2022 6:50 am, David Carlson wrote:
> 
> It is not a secret location known only to Linus Pauling and a few of his
> friends.
> 

>>> much to ensure ALL my data is backed up. So I hit upon the idea of
>> running
>>> the tool under a custom value of $HOME, but I was then shocked to
>> discover
>>> that even with this method, gnucash was able to remember previous
>> locations
>>> of my database file, which suggests that the tool is also using some kind
>>> of other mechanism to save historical data, and that makes me very
>> nervous
>>> about actually being able to do proper backups of everything related to
>> the
>>> tool.
>>> Doing some sleuthing using strace, I was able to find the previous
>> database
>>> location delivered through some socket connection, and that really scares
>>> me, since it is now possible critical data is stored via some other Linux
>>> service and I will have no way to trace out where this may be to avoid
>>> future nasty surprises.
>>> I have not seen any documentation about backup strategies other than the
>>> aromatic saving of previous data files, yet I do see that there was data
>>> being stored at least in ~/.local, so I'm hoping someone on this list may
>>> be able to point me to some more thorough discussion of ALL the places
>> user
>>> data from gnucash may be stored.