I am using dropbox on my redhat linux kernel. Right now we have a dummy user set up, with it's own dropbox account. Everyone can access and dump their files into it while on the machine and then everyone has access to the share folder, for when they are not on the machine. This is in no way optimal but no one wanted to give up any space on their own dropbox accounts and I am working with what I am given. Right now, when I update my own dropbox account I use: ~/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd.I do this only when I know that I have actually put something different in my folder. This really won't work for the dummy account because I don't know when it is updated and I can't trust anyone else to actually go through with it. I REALLY don't want to have to log in as this dummy user everyday and update it. My question is: Is there a way to automatically have dropbox update (i.e. I don't have to log in everyday, multiple times a day to make sure the dropbox is up to date)?
Update different dropbox instances
rhel;dropbox
Why not setup multiple instances of dropbox? I have 2 dropbox accounts which I've setup like so:$ ls -l ~/Dropboxdrwxrwxr-x 10 saml saml 4096 Nov 30 22:21 personaldrwxrwxr-x 10 saml saml 4096 Dec  7 15:49 workInside each of those directories is a Dropbox folder:$ ls -l personal/ work/personal/:drwxrwxr-x 10 saml saml 4096 Nov 30 22:21 .drwxrwxr-x  4 saml saml 4096 Dec 14 20:49 ..drwx------  3 saml saml 4096 Nov 30 22:20 .cachedrwxrwxr-x 19 saml saml 4096 Mar 19 11:30 .ccachedrwx------  4 saml saml 4096 Nov 30 22:23 .configdrwx------  3 saml saml 4096 May 15 11:00 .dropboxdrwx------ 17 saml saml 4096 May  8 22:13 Dropboxdrwx------  3 saml saml 4096 Nov 30 22:21 .kdedrwxrwxr-x  3 saml saml 4096 Nov 30 22:20 .localdrwx------  3 saml saml 4096 Nov 30 22:20 .pkiwork/:drwxrwxr-x 10 saml saml 4096 Dec  7 15:49 .drwxrwxr-x  4 saml saml 4096 Dec 14 20:49 ..drwx------  3 saml saml 4096 Dec  7 15:49 .cachedrwxrwxr-x 18 saml saml 4096 Feb  5 10:03 .ccachedrwx------  4 saml saml 4096 Dec  8 22:18 .configdrwx------  3 saml saml 4096 May  8 22:13 .dropboxdrwx------  5 saml saml 4096 May  8 22:13 Dropboxdrwx------  3 saml saml 4096 Dec  7 15:49 .kdedrwxrwxr-x  3 saml saml 4096 Dec  7 15:49 .localdrwx------  3 saml saml 4096 Dec  7 15:49 .pkiMy content is inside the Dropbox folders for the 2 accounts. I then use this script to start up my dropbox applets.#!/bin/bashdropboxes=personal workfor dropbox in $dropboxesdo    HOME=/home/$USER    DROPHOME=$HOME/Dropbox    if ! [ -d $DROPHOME/$dropbox ]    then        mkdir $DROPHOME/$dropbox 2> /dev/null        ln -s $HOME/.Xauthority $DROPHOME/$dropbox/ 2> /dev/null    fi    HOME=$DROPHOME/$dropbox    /home/$USER/.dropbox-dist/dropboxd 2> /dev/null &doneThis script is launched from the GNOME Startup Applications tool. The script is called dropbox.sh.      I setup the Startup Application so that it runs this command:bash -c sleep 60 && dropbox.shThis gives the network a minute to come up before starting Dropbox.It's a little weird at first but you get used to seeing 2 dropbox icons in your taskbar.                               