Sometime in May William H. Magill assaulted the keyboard and produced: | Anything which operates from the AQUA GUI (the login window) requires | the path (and other similar stuff) be entered in the ~/.MacOSX/ | environment.plist file. Now this is mighty interesting. Since I don't seem to have this directory, I assume that it isn't created when a user account is created. You mentioned the environment.plist file, but I would assume there are other files which are commonly found in the ~/.MacOSX directory. I know that OS X is based on bsd so this might be a System V question since I'm more familiar with Linux: Is there a skeleton directory similar to /etc/skel for the ~/.MacOSX directory that contians files commonly used? -- ---------------------------------------------------------- | /"\ john harrold | \ / ASCII ribbon campaign jmh at member.fsf.org | X against HTML mail the most useful idiot | / \ ---------------------------------------------------------- What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is brought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy? --Gandhi ---------------------------------------------------------- gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-key B23241CB ---------------------------------------------------------- -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: Digital signature Url : http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/pipermail/x-unix/attachments/20050516/2e665230/attachment.bin