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[jonrkc]

I've had to remove the mysterious .ICEauthority file MANY times recently
to get things to work.  (OK, it's not mysterious to people who
understand it, but all I know is that it's supposed to provide some
kind of protections security via a "magic number" that's created in it.
I know basically what a magic number is, too--but I have no idea how
these things get created or why they in turn create such havoc for us
poor ordinary users.)



I had to do it occasionally under Mandrake/Mandriva which I was using
before I switched about a month ago to Ubuntu, with which I've been
generally quite happy, especially with the Debian aspect of apt-get,
etc. which for me is MUCH easier to use than what Mandriva and other
Red Hat derivatives supply.  I don't mean to knock the other distro,
though; it's largely a matter of taste.



Anyway: I checked my /etc/environment file after the post a couple of
items up, this morning, and found it to contain only this:




Code:
--------------------
    

  

  

  

  LANGUAGE="en"

  LANG=en_US.UTF-8

  

  
--------------------




In other words, just the language (English) and default keyboard
encoding (US English) information.  No mention of a path.



Then I checked root's .bashrc file.  No path there either.  



Now MY path, as ordinary user "jon," resides in jon's .bashrc file,
where jon can alter it at will (and sometimes does) and it stays the
way jon writes it.



So my question, which may be very relevant to this discussion, is:
Where on earth does root's path normally reside?


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jonrkc