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Thank you.<br>
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MadHat wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">On Wed, 2002-09-11 at 12:33, Fred James wrote:<br></pre>
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<pre wrap="">"shouldn't be pointing to itself"<br>- should I delete it?<br>- what will suffer if I delete it?<br>- is it "harmless" or "benign"?<br><br>"used with KDE"<br>I use Gnome, so I guess we can assume it runs there too?<br></pre>
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<pre wrap=""><!----><br>Gnome uses GOAD (GNOME Object Activation Directory) which is based on<br>CORBA<br><br><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://developer.gnome.org/doc/whitepapers/ORBit/framework.html">http://developer.gnome.org/doc/whitepapers/ORBit/framework.html</a><br><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/libgnorba/gnorba-goad.html">http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/libgnorba/gnorba-goad.html</a><br><br></pre>
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<pre wrap="">Anyway, the link in my home directory was highlighted in red, which I <br>believe means NG - is that right?<br>And since the link was from 15 Aug - and this being a laptop which has <br>been rebooted twice a day on every business day since then - I decided <br>to live dangerously and delete it.<br><br>Thank you, and thank you in advance for any additional information you <br>may be able to share.<br><br><br><br>MadHat wrote:<br><br></pre>
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<pre wrap="">On Wed, 2002-09-11 at 11:52, Fred James wrote:<br><br></pre>
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<pre wrap="">In my home directory, I found this link<br>.DCOPserver_localhost.localdomain -> /(my home <br>directory)/.DCOPserver_localhost.localdomain_:0<br>What is a DCOPserver? And doesn't it seem odd for it to be pointing to <br>itself, or is it?<br><br></pre>
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<pre wrap="">it is for use with KDE and the backend interprocess communication<br>(IIRC). It shouldn't be pointed to itself, but the names will be very<br>similar. Usually, it replaces the :0 with _0, where the _0 is the real<br>file and the :0 is the symlink.<br><br></pre>
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<pre wrap="">Does this have anything to do with "ssh"?<br><br></pre>
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<pre wrap="">no<br><br></pre>
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<pre wrap="">-- <br>small is beautiful<br><br><br></pre>
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