Re: fluxbox partial installation (SOLVED)

[Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net>]

On Sat, Apr 02, 2022 at 03:17:41PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 02, 2022 at 02:02:14PM -0500, David Wright wrote:
> > 10.7.5 User configuration files (“dotfiles”)
> > 
> > The files in /etc/skel will automatically be copied into new user
> > accounts by adduser. No other program should reference the files in
> > /etc/skel.
> > 
> > Therefore, if a program needs a dotfile to exist in advance in $HOME
> > to work sensibly, that dotfile should be installed in /etc/skel and
> > treated as a configuration file.
> 
> Even if a package did this, it wouldn't cause that file to be
> propagated into *existing* user home directories.  It would only
> show up for newly created users.

Thank you. The problem turned out to be that my hostname somehow 
changed. It was originally <hostname> but then it became 
<hostname>-10.  The only way I can account for this is my senility 
(87). 
 
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     Haines Brown 

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