Understanding trouble

[Ashley Benton]

On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Andrew Kane <googoleyes at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 8:15 AM, Ashley Benton <chuaukantli at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I am having trouble to understand how the fact to type something into the
> > terminal change the comportment of the system. An example would be :
> > gconftool -s --type bool /apps/update-notifier/auto_launch false .
> > I don't see cat > or anything that would modify the original file but I
> am
> > guessing that's here and I just don't know it. Any place where I could
> learn
> > it or read about it to understand it better?
> > Any advices would be appreciated.
> > Thanks
> >
> > Meg
> >
>
> According to the gconftool man page it "...is the command-line  interface
>  tool
>       that enables you to set the values of keys, display the values of
> keys,
>       and install schemas from schema definition files when  you  install
>  an
>       application.  The  GConf  preference keys are stored and managed by
> the
>       GConf daemon (gconfd-2).  These keys are cached in memory, and saved
> to
>       disk in XML format when appropriate."
>     This suggest to me that gconftool alters the "preferences
> database" which is instantiated in RAM, rather than doing anything to
> the filesystem.
> Further information is here:
>
> http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/
>
> It's over my head, hope it's helpful to you.
>

Thanks for your explanation now that's making sense. I am checking the link
and will try to understand a little more about it.
Thanks

Meg

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