Mythical Proportions wrote:

 > 2 GNOME questions for you... 
 > 1) I want to 're-organize' some of the items in the GNOME menu.  In M$
 > you can click and drag items around the start menu, but it doesn't
 > appear to work like that in GNOME.  What conf file controls the gnome
 > menu (both per user and globally)?

YES!!!   How do you do this?  The menu editor from GNOME 1.4 is gone...

 > 1 just general query for good measure:
 > 3) I want to start tarring my home folders for backup.  I know you can
 > tell tar to exclude certain files/folders, but I can't seem to get the
 > syntax write based on the man and --help stuff.  I want to exclude one
 > folder within /home/user1 that has music files.  
 > So... #: tar -cvz archive.tar /home/user1 
 > doesn't cut it.  Anyone have any advice?

tar -cvz archive.tar --exclude=/home/user1/DirToExclude2
--exclude=/home/user1/DirToExclude2 /home/user1

Raul




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