RE: [coldsync-hackers] Re: Real life experiences with netsync

["Rob Bloodgood" <robb at empire2 dot com>]

> >  I also found a patch to change the default sync dir semantics so
> > that coldsync is assigned its own userid, and when a user syncs,
> > his data goes into a subdir of that coldsync user's homedir:
>
> Do you think this feature is worth to go in the CVS version, as an user
> selectable option?

** Absolutely. **

There is a time and place when a coldsync user just wants to have his
fsck'ing PDA working with his *nix box.
There is a different time and place where a geek is responsible for syncing
a large number of remote PDAs, and the "users" (the people who use the
PDA's) never see the server.

For example, I've got a palm app, and The Management and I have decided to
make a small cosmetic fix.  Instead of having to hunt down and modify files
in home directories all over the computer (which I would have to do as
root), I can copy the new file into all of the PDA home dirs with a single
cp(1) command (logged in as the coldsync administrator), where they will
automatically be push-installed quietly on the next sync.

In this instance, coldsync is the gateway, and my perl conduit is an
extremely thin wrapper around deparsing the records in a PDB and inserting
them as-is into a MySQL database.  But I've heard mention around here of
various groupware apps, of a medical situation where the Doctor's PDAs sync
up but they never touch the server, etc.

Anyway, what I'm saying is that I'm not the only one who has requested this
feature, and I needed it so badly that I'm essentially anchored to a version
of coldsync for which a patch could be found to give it to me.

So along with the CVS fixes for inetd operation, yes, this would be my
personal feature request.

L8r,
Rob


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