[ILUG-BOM] Problem starting GNOME

Nadiem knadz555@[EMAIL-PROTECTED]
Sat Mar 26 23:58:10 IST 2005


--- Rony Bill <ronbillypop at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> Nadiem wrote:
> 
> >If you don't remove /home/rony and simply create a
> new
> >user called rony again, the system allocates the
> >directory to this user.
> >
> Will the system update any damaged or deleted or
> misconfigured system 
> files in the /home/rony directory? If so then this
> is the shortest 
> method to repair a user's configuration as all other
> data will remain 
> intact.

When user rony is created, the system files defined by
/etc/skel are copied into /home/rony. So yes, if the
misconfigured files are present in /etc/skel ,they
would be repaired.

Regards,
Nadiem.


		
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