Re: GNOME Administration

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Carl Riches <riches@ms.washington.edu> writes:
> We run a bunch of different kinds of Unix systems, including RedHat
> Linux 6.1.  We use rdist to administer configuration changes, software
> updates, etc.  In order to distribute GNOME updates and configuration
> changes we need to know where GNOME keeps its config files, and how they
> work.  We sometimes need to manually edit config files (such as when
> something's broken).  In addition, we want to ensure that rdist copies the
> correct files out.  That requires knowing the names and locations of the
> files to rdist.
> 
> I have been unable to figure out what files GNOME uses to configure itself,
> and may not be looking in the correct locations for the config files.
> Perhaps I'm seeing the files but not understanding how they work.  Can
> someone help me out with this information?
> 

Someone started a document here:
 http://www.maths.warwick.ac.uk/~pgc/gnome/

There isn't much there, but maybe it's a start. I wish there were more
people working on it.

Havoc