Re: [flalug] removed /opt/gnome2 directory mystery solved

From: Smitty (a.smitty@verizon.net)
Date: Sat Jan 10 2004 - 21:00:50 EST


On Saturday 10 January 2004 20:44, you wrote:
> On Sat, 10 Jan 2004, Smitty wrote:
> > Please move out this directory, otherwise it will be deleted by
> > SuSEconfig.gnome-filesystem in one week since last change.
>
> Boy, that's mean. I had a customer jump on my case because we deleted a
> file he was "using". Where had he left it? C:\TEMP . Duh. (The
> computers did that on reboot.) What do you think "TEMP" means? So I'm a
> bit twitchy about using tmpwatch (even though I know it's a Good Thing,
> even on my private system, and I know some /tmps are in RAM...)
>
> > Not the type of Linux vendor I am comfortable with.
>
> Ditto. But I bet you can find out where SuSEconfig.gnome-filesystem is
> called and comment it out, or modify it so it leaves /opt/gnome2 alone.

I just changed the write permissions to /opt/gnome2 so that it cannot be
written to by anyone. I also copied all the files of the package to the
relevant places in /opt/gnome and test the executable there, which did work.



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