Gnome Conduits Howto

[list-gnome-pilot ccraig org (Christopher A. Craig)]

Sorry this has taken me so long, I had work in classes come up and was
unable to complete it as quickly as I had intended.  I haven't
formated it yet, because I'm not sure if there is some defined
standard for how Gnome pages should look or if I should just copy the
feel of the current ones.  Anyway here's the content I have so far.  

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header(General)

By clicking on the applet in the panel you, by default, get
gpilot-fileman.
      This is not compatible with the new gnome-pilot architecture and
      shouldn't be used unless you know what you're doing.

<P> You must specify a port for the pilot, but all other information
can be gotten from the pilot by hitting the "get from pilot" button in
the "Pilot Link" control applet.

header(Email conduit)

The email conduit is pretty much magic.  If you set it to enabled it
should determine everything automagically.  It does have the
requirement that you must have sendmail located in /usr/lib/sendmail
if this is not where your sendmail is located put the following in
~/.gnome/gnome-pilot.d/email-conduit

<pre>
[Pilot_&lt;user&gt;]
sendmail=&lt;path/to/sendmail&gt; -t -l 
</pre>

where &lt;user&gt; is the id specified in the <B>Pilot Link
Properties</B> capplet and &lt;path/to/sendmail&gt; is the full
pathname of sendmail or someother compatible command.


header(File conduit)

If the file conduit is activated then you may either drag a file from
another Gnome application to the gnome-pilot applet in the panel, or
use gpilotd-client to manually add a file to the queue list.  Once
added to the queue list that file will be uploaded the next time you
hotsync

header(Backup conduit)

The backup conduit, if activated, backs up all databases on the pilot
to a specified directory.  You may select to backup either all
databases, or only those that have changed since the last sync; and to
either remove or retain copies of databases that have been removed
from the pilot.
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I admit that I'm not all that familiar with how these work, so I could
have made some mistakes.  Feel free to mail me corrections or
additions.



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