On 14/12/99 GECOS wrote:
It works great. So what's my problem? Just that the initscripts somewhere insist on rewriting XF86Config when I restart the system.
first: what kind of broken system rewrites configuration files at every reboot!?!?!!!
The only reliable way I have found to prevent it from doing this is to delete "/sbin/buildxconf." But this is an ugly solution. Where are the defaults stored? I thought I had found them in /etc/devices. But it turns out that file gets rewritten too! Does the system recheck the hardware on every reboot and write these files in accordance with what it thinks they should be? How do I stop it from doing this?
perverse... how about this: chattr -R +i /etc/X11 ? not even root can touch an immutable file and i doubt the scripts are smart enough to remove the immutable bit.
(BTW, I'm using the Corel variant of debian. So maybe this is a problem unique to that variant?)
ah the answer to be previous question.. of course the plague of `ease of use'
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