Problem saving files

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Thu Oct 23 18:43:45 CDT 2003


Mathieu Masse <mathieu_masse at sympatico.ca> writes:

>     One thing I realized after reading this is that I had installed it
> when I first installed Linux (about 8 monts ago!) played with it and
> then removed it (all with the rpms). Would that mean that rpm -e gnucash
> doesn't remove all the files (I know I had deleted the .gnucash dir. in
> my home). And to answer you question I did not change my home dir or
> uid.

removing gnucash will remove its files, but not the files it creates
in your home dir.  It stores data in $HOME/.gnucash and
$HOME/.gnome/GnuCash and removing the rpm wont remove those.

> >         strace -f -o /tmp/gnucash.out gnucash
> > 
> 
>     See file attached.

I'll look later -- sorry, I'm in the middle of something else right now.

-derek

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