On Tue, 2003-04-01 at 06:50, Christopher Kolar wrote: > At 09:24 AM 3/30/2003, you wrote: > > >On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 13:03, Christopher Kolar wrote: > > > Hi everyone. I've recently upgraded to 9.1 from 8.1 and, given the > > > age difference, things went pretty smoothly. To date the most > > > annoying problem that I have had is that all of the programs on the > > > KDE start menu are gone -- both in my user account and as root. > > > >Try as first a user and then as root update-menus... wait a few seconds > >and see if it comes back. From 8.1 to 9.1 the changes in KDE have been > >enormous. You might have to wack all of the .kde and .kderc files/dirs > >in your home directory, but try update-menus first. > > > > > > ** It appears to be rewriting the permissions on /home directories to > > > 700 every 15 minutes or so. That is good for security, but bad if you > > > have apps (like pre-2.1 Mailman) that want to run in a /home directory > > > with more permissive read settings. > > > >Use the tools in MCC to edit this (under the security tab). If you > >can't find a correct rule chose editable.. it will let you enter new > >rules so that what you need gets set to what you want. For the purists > >in the group the file to edit is under /etc/msec. > > Thanks, James, for two suggestions that were right on track. I ran > menu-update as a normal user from the shell and changed, then I ran it as > root from shell and it spun for a minute -- everything was then in its > proper place when I went into KDE (both as root and as a user). Thanks > also for pointing me to the new DrakPerm panel. > > Cheers, > > --chris > > No sweat.... was pretty sure the update-menus would work.... cause it did the same thing for me *grin*
James
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