[GNC] Linus Pauling's friends

[David Carlson]

That shows my age.  Linus Pauling was imprinted into my brain in the 1960's.

On Tue, Feb 22, 2022 at 4:22 PM Geoff <cleanoutmyshed at gmail.com> wrote:

> Good one David, you have made my day! I am nominating you for the Answer
> of the Month Award.
>
> ;--))
>
> Geoff
> =====
> 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.
>


-- 
David Carlson