New 10.6.4

Brandon S Allbery KF8NH allbery at kf8nh.com
Sun Jun 20 08:27:55 PDT 2010


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On 6/20/10 11:10 , John B Brown wrote:
>     Thank you for that set of directions. Why did the variable not change
> when I performed the write using sudo but changed only when I performed the
> write as myself? I am set for ALL in sudoers. Is that variable stored in
> some 'very private' place?

It's stored in a per-user location (~/Library/Preferences). If you do it as
sudo, it changes the global one in /Library/Preferences; but if you already
have a user preference file (and you do, because X11.app creates it) that
won't affect your existing setting.

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brandon s. allbery     [linux,solaris,freebsd,perl]      allbery at kf8nh.com
system administrator  [openafs,heimdal,too many hats]  allbery at ece.cmu.edu
electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university      KF8NH
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