On Saturday 28 September 2002 08:36 am, SpeedMan wrote: > On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 20:59, s wrote: > > Hi gang, > > I have a little mystery going on here that isn't really distro or > > version specific as I've had it happen to me for many many > > mandrake releases and in Slackware. But something somewhere > > somehow for some reason is creating an empty .xinitrc file in my > > home directory on occasion, and of course the startx command > > won't work with it present. > Next time it happens you could use stat to at least pin point when > the file was created and/or modified. This information may help > you identify the process that is creating the file. > > $ stat .xinitrc > > <SNIP> >
thanks speedman. Learn something new everyday. :) -s
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