Application Preferences on Michael’s Domain

System reinstall, kmail, kopete and other application preferences/settings

Wed, 04 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0000

I deleted my root directory in an attempt to delete a file that was starting with the character “/”. A crash of konqueror had left such impossible file in some subdirectory of /tmp. As root I played with some regular expresssions to delete it, but only managed to delete my root directory. Not completely (as the excessive disk activity made my soon realize my mistake), but sufficiently beyond repair. So I had to reinstall the system which took only 50 minutes from the DVD (selecting allmost all software packages) plus another 40 minutes for the online update via the ftp.funet.fi . Funnily funet.fi is not listed by YOU as a suse mirror although it is pretty up-to-date, less frequented than e.g. sunet.se and for me much faster than most other mirrors.

Keeping preferences and similar stuff (e.g. password files, bookmarks) in sync between two different Linux distributions (unison)

Tue, 06 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0000

I use unison to keep my kwallet syncronized between SuSE Linux 9.3 and 10.0. Of course one can use the same /home partition for both distros, but this can cause trouble due to differences in the program versions. Thus I only share /home/user/Documents among the distros and have separate /home/user/.preference files, some of which I syncronize during shutdown.This is the /home/user/.unison/shared_resources.prf file:jeltsch@michael-laptop:~/.unison> more shared_resources.prfroot = /home/jeltsch/.kde/share/apps/kwalletroot = /suse10/home/jeltsch/.kde/share/apps/kwalletinclude default auto = trueAnd this is the command to syncronize the directories non-interactively:unison -ui text -batch shared_resources