{"id":28,"date":"2007-11-09T07:16:27","date_gmt":"2007-11-09T12:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yourlinuxguy.com\/ww\/?p=28"},"modified":"2008-02-28T15:19:51","modified_gmt":"2008-02-28T20:19:51","slug":"how-do-i-migrate-my-realaudio-settings-between-usersmachines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yourLinuxGuy.com\/?p=28","title":{"rendered":"How do I migrate my RealAudio settings between users\/machines?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;re a RealAudio user. I&#8217;m a RealAudio user. We get all our Internet streaming stations set up just right in &#8220;Favorites&#8221;, and all your links to your buddy&#8217;s (or your) rock band in your &#8220;Recent&#8221; list, and you just want it to stay that way. I know, I&#8217;ve been there&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>But, it happens; You set a machine up, start using it, and then a few months later, you want to do a fresh re-install. Or, you would like your settings to be the same for the root user as they are for your regular user. And so on&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the deal &#8211; Linux has, so far, resisted the dominant use of a &#8220;registry&#8221; like another famous operating system (though it seems to get closer each day). So, you&#8217;re in luck. Almost all of your Linux-specific profile-based application settings are stored in files in your home directory, e.g. <code>\/home\/jpavlov<\/code>.<\/p>\n<p>For a closer look, type this: <code>ls -al \/home\/username<\/code><\/p>\n<p>Notice all the filenames and directories starting with a period\/dot? The leading dot is old-school Linux for &#8220;hidden&#8221; files (the &#8220;<code>a<\/code>&#8221; in the command above exposed the so-called hidden files). Those files are the very files that your applications need to load your personal settings, and they are quite portable.<\/p>\n<p>So, back to the point of this post, you now know that hidden in the root of your home directory, you have found your  RealAudio config file, likely named &#8220;<code>.realplayerrc<\/code>&#8220;.  And all you need to do to have RealAudio bliss as a different user, is to copy it to the root of the home directory for that user, *and* change the ownership of the new copy to that different user with the following command: <code>chown newuser .realplayerrc<\/code><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s how easy it is. Now wait until they pull it all into a registry. I prefer the files!<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;re a RealAudio user. I&#8217;m a RealAudio user. We get all our Internet streaming stations set up just right in &#8220;Favorites&#8221;, and all your links to your buddy&#8217;s (or your) rock band in your &#8220;Recent&#8221; list, and you just want&#8230;<br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"https:\/\/yourLinuxGuy.com\/?p=28\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-introductory","category-realaudio"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pnjn1-s","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourLinuxGuy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourLinuxGuy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourLinuxGuy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourLinuxGuy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourLinuxGuy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yourLinuxGuy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yourLinuxGuy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourLinuxGuy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yourLinuxGuy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}