Baby steps

[Jonboy_us]

This was cool, but sucked all at the same time yesterday. I was working on getting the scroll to work on my mouse and so I was messing with the /ext/X11/XF86Config and XF86Config-4 files to change the mouse settings. Well, I changed the mouse settings incorrectly and when I rebooted, it didn’t come back up under KDE. It was just a plain text login prompt. :confused: However I did make back up copies of the files in question onto my root desktop, so I logged out as jonboy and back in as root and did a cp (copy) from the root directory to the files original location, rebooted and I came back up in KDE. Any regular Linux user may not think of this as a big deal, but I do in a way. It’s sort of the first steps in me thinking in Linux and what you can do.

Just wanted to share my linux little baby step moment. I suppose you could say I'm a penguin chick! Or what ever penguin babys are called :D

[Hayl]

good for you.

i alway feel sorry for people who don't make a backup first. (and then i giggle) :) :) :)

[serz]

No prob! at least there's something good in this cases...
You learn lots of things from your own mistakes :)

Luck.

[JeffBarge]

I only wish I had thought to make a backup the first time I started fiddling with config files...congrats....
-jeffbarge

[Jonboy_us]

My first thought was to reload. But luckly I remembered the backups.

[Icarus]

"Backups are for wimps!"

"No problem, we can restore this from backup...you DO have a good backup, right?"

"I thought about backing it up, but why bother?"

"This is our only backup, it's 3 months old...is that OK?"



All quotes I've heard at work alone. Our remote locations don't seem to believe in backups, if they do they think a tape cycle of 1 day (use the same tape everyday) is OK :D