[RndTbl] config files zapped

author millward at Ms.UManitoba.CA
Mon Jan 28 09:24:09 CST 2002


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.



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