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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