[Gnumed-devel] Re: What happened to gnumed.conf?

[James Busser]

On 5-Sep-08, at 2:04 AM, James Busser wrote:

> Mine for 0.2.8.10-1 contains only
>
> [preferences]
> profile = public GNUmed database (address@hidden)
> login = any-doc

I did just note on

        http://salaam.homeunix.com/bin/view/Gnumed/ServerInstallUpgrade

> From here, you can proceed to Starting GNUmed for which you may  
> need to modify the gnumed.conf file of the GNUmed client to enable  
> it to find your newly created backend.The easiest way to do this is  
> - as root - copy the /etc/gnumed/gnumed-client.conf file to /home/ 
> user/.gnumed/gnumed.conf. Then log in as that user and start GNUmed.


it is just that I did not recall a decision to strip the other  
configs out of the client. I can understand that it *would* cut down  
on befuddlement by those users who did not understand why they could  
be allowed to select something (local) which did nothing when they  
did have a client, but no database.

If we leave it this way we would only need to ensure that a LiveCD  
had both a local database and a suitable gnumed.config because the  
LiveCD is already slow enough we should save people the agony of CD- 
based booting combined with swap file in RAM combined with a distant,  
limited-resource public server connection.