Red Hat 7.1 kernel 2.4.2-2 KDE 2.1.1 Somehow all my config files got zapped. I was busy installing apps in /usr/local in root. And I admit, I made a blunder by sending and getting some mail in Kmail while still in root. Then I noticed my KDE screen had returned to its original murky blue before I had set things up the way I like them. Anyway, the thing is, a lot of stuff has changed. Like the 300 e-mails in Kmail are all gone, Kmail's configuration is gone, all my 200 bookmarks in Konqueror are gone along with Konqueror's configs and .bash_profile and .bashrc in /root. Maybe more, I don't know. What bothers me is I'm not sure at all how this happened. Perhaps a bug in a .tar.gz or .bz2 file or was it something from an e-mail in Kmail ? Duh? On the bright side, this gives me a good excuse to install Red Hat 7.2.