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[matusiak <dave AT matusiak.org>]

On Thursday, April 22, 2004, at 03:37  PM, Alan MacHett wrote:

> o! great Linux gurus!
>
> the idiot-leader needs assistance ... again.  ;)
>
> ...so I decided I didn't like the group name assigned to my personal 
> login
> on this machine my friend gave me; the user name and group name were 
> the
> same (apparantly that's standard under (later) RHL).  I changed the 
> group
> name; I don't believe that I changed anything else, just the name of 
> the
> group.

oh, you are so completely hosed.  just throw that box out and start 
over with a new one.  :)

> Well, when I logged in again, all of the environment settings and 
> personal
> preferences have disappeared.  Desktop image gone, toolbar gone, 
> bookmarks
> in Mozilla gone, etc, etc.
>
> How do I fix that?  (as in, without having to manually reset 
> everything)
> Can I fix that?  (as in, suck it up, Alan, you're a Linux idiot and 
> you'll
> have to redo it all by hand)(as in, Matusiak's right and Linux is a 
> pain
> in the arse) ;)

and what about my right?  soon you'll be going after my left, too!

not to mention, "I Love Linux!"(tm).  it has one of the best kernels in 
the world and serves exquisitely well as a server, router or network 
device.

> ...time to invest in a RHL manual.  My newbie-ness in trying to 
> navigate
> this stuff is tempting me to take this machine to Uzi's grill 
> tomorrow...

dude, didn't I already give you a book on linux?  did you feed it to 
your cats?

dave m.