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From: sean@killer.UUCP (Sean McCollister)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: 3B1 window questions
Message-ID: <1465@killer.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 3-Sep-87 08:21:13 EDT
Article-I.D.: killer.1465
Posted: Thu Sep  3 08:21:13 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 5-Sep-87 15:23:44 EDT
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Organization: The Unix(tm) Connection, Dallas, Texas
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> > I have one more question that is along another line.  Every so often
> > I will be logged in doing something (nothing special) and the screen
> > will clear and I will get some kind of error message displayed.  It has  
> > something to do with the Filcabinet directory.  Then it disappears (quickly)
> > and I am returned to my original screen as if nothing ever happened.


> I used to get this every so often - I think only when running as 'root'.
> If you read the error message quickly enough, it says that it can't
> open "Filecabinet/.".  Well, 'root's login directory is "/", and I
> didn't have a directory "/Filecabinet".  So I simply created one -
> it doesn't have any files in it, of course - and I haven't seen the
> error message since.


	I've noticed this also, and I'm fairly sure that the error message
is being generated by the Phone Manager (/etc/ph) as it looks for the .phdir
file and the Filecabinet/Notes directory.  If you log in as root and delete
these files, you'll note that they are re-created after you get the error
message.  If root doesn't have a Filecabinet directory, the Notes directory
gets created in /.  In fact, I've noticed that the same thing happens to
any console login (uucp, adm, etc.) that doesn't have these files present.
If you check the /Filecabinet directory you think is empty you'll probably
find Notes hiding in there, too.

							Sean