What creates the user settings in /root ?

[Glen Gray]

Hey guys,

My custom installation scripts are progressing nicely thanks to the
feedback from here. I'm at the last stage now. I want to get my kiosk
booting with some sane settings but without having to go into a full
gnome session.

So I was wondering, at first login, where do the various .bashxxx and
.gnomexxxx dirs come from with the default fedora core settings. I'm
hoping there is something I can call post install to get them all setup
nicely for first boot. Or do something in first boot if that's the only
way.

Thanks,

[Karsten Hopp]

On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 10:25:52AM +0100, Glen Gray wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> My custom installation scripts are progressing nicely thanks to the
> feedback from here. I'm at the last stage now. I want to get my kiosk
> booting with some sane settings but without having to go into a full
> gnome session.
>
> So I was wondering, at first login, where do the various .bashxxx and
> .gnomexxxx dirs come from with the default fedora core settings. I'm
> hoping there is something I can call post install to get them all setup
> nicely for first boot. Or do something in first boot if that's the only
> way.
> Thanks,
>
> Glen Gray                              17 Dame Court
> Senior Software Engineer                            Dublin 2, Ireland
> Lincor Solutions Ltd.                          Ph: [phone]

That's not anacondas doing, useradd copies the files from /etc/skel into the
homedirs of the newly created accounts. Check the manpage and search for
skeleton_dir.

Karsten

[Glen Gray]

On Thu, 2004-08-26 at 12:52, Karsten Hopp wrote:
> That's not anacondas doing, useradd copies the files from /etc/skel into the
> homedirs of the newly created accounts. Check the manpage and search for
> skeleton_dir.

Yeah I know about the useradd and /etc/skel stuff. I should have been
clearer that it was in relation to the root user. Angus pointed out off
list that it's the rootfiles rpm that contains all that stuff. And that
the gnome-session creates all the gnome . files.

Cheers,

[Matthew Miller]

On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 10:25:52AM +0100, Glen Gray wrote:
> So I was wondering, at first login, where do the various .bashxxx and
> .gnomexxxx dirs come from with the default fedora core settings. I'm

root@mysystem:~# rpm -qf .bashrc
 rootfiles-7.2-7

but

root@mysystem:~# rpm -qf .gnome*
 file .gnome is not owned by any package
 file .gnome2 is not owned by any package
 file .gnome2_private is not owned by any package
> hoping there is something I can call post install to get them all setup
> nicely for first boot. Or do something in first boot if that's the only
> way.

Are you using kickstart? You can do whatever you want in the post install
section....