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#1 2003-05-06 06:56:01
- hApy
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oops! rm -r /root/
well I made the foolish mistake of deleting my entire /root home dir... the unfortunate side effect of this has been that I can't seem to get X programs to work properly anymore. I basically copied all my configs over from my user homedir since they essentially had the same config for almost everything. But now if I do something like:
su
arsonI get the error:
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified
arson: cannot connect to X server :0.0how do I regain the harmony I once enjoyed!? 
I'm a litle shaky as to how to fix the problem, I suspect has something to do with my /root/.Xauthority file and I've played a bit with xauth, like merging in my other user config into the /root/.Xauthority using xauth... this seemed to work for a bit, but later it started to complain again, so I'm pretty sure I'm doing something wrong. Anybody offer any insight into this?
thanks!
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#2 2003-05-09 16:04:49
- hApy
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Re: oops! rm -r /root/
well using xauth to merge my users .Xauthority file into the roots works, but it no longer stays in sync like it originally did. 
So I keep having to re-merge it every once in awhile.
anybody know why?
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#3 2003-05-10 00:21:46
- hApy
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Re: oops! rm -r /root/
oh my...
xhost +localhost
fixes it of course. *sigh* I thought it was already there but apparently I lost it somewhere in there. 
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#4 2003-05-10 01:24:02
- sarah31
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Re: oops! rm -r /root/
hApy i think you should thank hApy for helping you out 
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#5 2003-05-10 01:57:08
- jlvsimoes
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Re: oops! rm -r /root/
lol
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#6 2003-05-10 04:00:19
- hApy
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Re: oops! rm -r /root/
I don't owe that bastard nuthin!
;D
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#7 2003-05-11 18:52:17
- dariball
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Re: oops! rm -r /root/
hapy :
you surely have no splitted personality ??
nothing,
maybe I have a perfect signature _someday_
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#8 2003-05-12 00:57:03
- hApy
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Re: oops! rm -r /root/
which hapy are you asking?
lol
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#9 2003-05-12 03:30:55
- sarah31
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Re: oops! rm -r /root/
the other one, of course. you know it is the wiser of the two:P
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