Re: /.kde and /.gnome* - policy?

[Christian Marillat <marillat.christian@wanadoo.fr>]

>>>> "ES" == Erik Steffl <steffl@bigfoot.com> writes:

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>> Which /.gnome* files ?

ES>   following directories were created somewhere along the lines of
ES> installing and using (very briefly) gnome:

ES>   /.gnome
ES>   /.gnome/accels
ES>   /.gnome_private

All these directories are created when you run gnome for the firts time. If
these directories are there, then you have a configuration problem.

ES>   there are no further directories/files under these.

ES>   I installed potato and later on changed it to to testing and even
ES> later on changed it to unstable. this all happened few days before
ES> 3/10/2001 (when I posted original message), so these are not oldproblem
ES> (unlike /.kde which was on old computer and is already fixed)

ES>   there are also .gnome and /.gnome_private directoreis under /root, so
ES> the ones under / are not root's (I guess)

If somebody other than root can write files here (/) you have a big problem.

Christian