On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 01:50:18PM -0600, Thomas Dodd wrote: > >>>What exactly does xpti.dat do, and does removing it have any > >>>consequences. The file xpti.dat itself is not very informative. > >>I don't know what xpti.dat does, but if it's there, there should be a > >>reason! > >I didn't remove it either, reasoning that if it is included in mozilla > >it serves some purpose. But the Flash folks might also have some reason > >why it would be advisable to remove it. > <mozilla-install-dir>/components/xpti.dat is autogenerated when mozilla > is run > the first time, and recreated if it's missing at later times. > The problem is ownership. Look at the one from Red Hat. > It's owned by root, and only writable by root. > same for the whole components directory. So you need to > 1) run mozilla as roo to recreate the file > or > 2) run <mozilla-install-dir>/mozilla-rebuild-databases.pl > as root to recreate all the autogenerated files. It runs regxpcom > and regchrome for you. Thanks for the info. I expected something like that. But this is no problem for me because I have everything intact, no need to recreate anything from Mozilla. But the question I was actually asking was why the Flash people advice you to remove xpti.dat after installing flashplayer. Alexander -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
