[jp] Sync Initiation feature request.

On May 30, 2008, at 11:23 AM, Tom wrote:

> On Friday 30 May 2008, Christopher Sean Hilton wrote:
>> I initiate a hotsync on the Palm.
>>
>> The USB subsystem starts the driver and creates a device node.
>>
>> The USB subsystem runs a script with starts a jpilot-sync program  
>> that
>> connects to my running jpilot process over a Unix Domain Socket. This
>> updates the data in ~/.jpilot/
>
> Yes, there's a method to do this which I found quite simple to set  
> up and
> works exactly as desired. It involves running the 'ivman' daemon  
> after it is
> configured to respond to the hotsync event initiated on the Palm.
>
> http://www.jpilot.org/pipermail/jpilot/2006-September/006483.html
>
> The process is described for a system using the old USB device nodes
> (/dev/ttyUSB, etc), rather than the new usb: thingy, though, so your  
> mileage
> may vary.
>

Thanks, that sounds perfect but I didn't think that jpilot -s  
connected to the main jpilot via a Unix domain socket. Perhaps jpilot - 
s just syncs the data...


-- Chris

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