On Jun 20, 2010, at 10:27, Brandon S Allbery KF8NH wrote: > On 6/20/10 11:10 , John B Brown wrote: >> Thank you for that set of directions. Why did the variable not change >> when I performed the write using sudo but changed only when I performed the >> write as myself? I am set for ALL in sudoers. Is that variable stored in >> some 'very private' place? > > It's stored in a per-user location (~/Library/Preferences). If you do it as > sudo, it changes the global one in /Library/Preferences; but if you already > have a user preference file (and you do, because X11.app creates it) that > won't affect your existing setting.
No, if you use sudo, it changes root's plist in /var/root/Library/Preferences. Not the global one in /Library/Preferences. _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
