On Monday 18 August 2008, russbucket wrote: > On Monday 18 August 2008 03:39:47 am Robin Green wrote: > > On UNIX operating systems, including Linux, files beginning with the . > > (dot) character are hidden by default. This is why you did not see the > > directory in /tmp. To see dot files use "ls -a". > > Thanks that works as user but I looked at it as root with ls and yesterday > it did not show the .vbox, today it does so it must have been something > else, that was cleared by the command I executed,.blocking the view. > > Oh well its working again and I'll settle for that for now. If it happens > again I look feathur.
One additional remark: Please _never_ start VirtualBox as root nor as sudo root. For security reasons and for the reason to prevent such problems you observed. Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert Sun Microsystems http://www.sun.com/
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