On Mon, 14 Apr 2003 08:03, Thomas Ritter wrote: > > Maybe kdm thought that "/" was it's home directory. kdm wants to create > > .qt, .kde, etc in it's home directory. It would be really nice if kdm > > could be changed to think it's home directory was something under /var to > > make a distinction between the root user and kde daemons running as root. > > I'd rather suggest /etc/kde3 - that's the proper place for those things.
IFF kdm doesn't modify those files... However I believe that as kdm uses so much code KDE code it will want to modify files and therefore needs somewhere with write access. But I agree that anywhere is better than the root home directory! -- http://www.coker.com.au/selinux/ My NSA Security Enhanced Linux packages http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page