Ritesh and Murray,
I was able to write a nice perl script to go into each home directory
on our server and change the SMTP. Just wanted to thank you for the
quick response saving me a lot of time. I'm going to try a similar
bash script that uses sed without the gconftool, it works from command
line but I'm having permission issues when doing batch changes as root.
ie:
cat %gconf.xml | sed s/oldsmtp/newsmtp/g > %gconf.xml
and then chown back to the original user. Haven't tested it
completely yet.
Regards,
Chris
Ritesh Khadgaray wrote:
On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 16:54 -0400, Chris Murphy wrote:
Thanks for picking this up. Tried your commands but with the
following errors:
First, no account's directory:
I couldn't find an accounts folder:
[clmurph chris mail]$ ls ~/.gconf/apps/evolution/mail/
composer display format %gconf.xml junk message_window prompts
subscribe_window
pssst .... it is the %gconf.xml file ;)
So I tried it on the whole folder:
[clmurph chris .gconf]$ gconftool-2
--get /public/home/clmurph/.gconf/apps/evolution/mail/
Failed to get value for
`/public/home/clmurph/.gconf/apps/evolution/mail/': Bad key or
directory name: "/public/home/clmurph/.gconf/apps/evolution/mail/":
Can't have a period (.) right after a slash (/)
[clmurph chris .gconf]$ gconftool-2 --get apps/evolution/mail/
Failed to get value for `apps/evolution/mail/': Bad key or directory
name: "apps/evolution/mail/": Must begin with a slash (/)
As said, Must being with a slash
gconftool-2 --get /apps/evolution/mail/accounts
I've never used this before, any help would be appreciated. I would
like to do this without moving the directory to a temp dir with no .'s
but maybe I'm missing something.
Ritesh Khadgaray wrote:
heya,
On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 15:06 -0400, Chris Murphy wrote:
Hi everyone,
I have looked through the archives and done a couple dozen grep's in my
home folder, but I can't find where evolution stores your account setup
info. What I want to do is change the smtp server for my entire company
without having to log in as each individual user and change it. If I
could change it in a config file by scripting sed or something similar
to switch it in each person's home that would be great.
This is saved as a gconf key, and is not searchable via grep due to
string substitution , i.e., & with & and like-wise .
The command-set below may help, and i have _not tested_ this .
gconftool-2 --get /apps/evolution/mail/accounts > /tmp/account_list
sed s/old_smtp/new_smtp/ account_list > account_list_modified
gconftool --unset /apps/evolution/mail/accounts
gconftool-2 --load < /tmp/account_list_modified
ps : on a additional note, i believe evolution has ldap backend for
settings .
Thanks
Chris
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