> Hi, > > On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 11:54, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: >>>>> grep face /home/<username> -r >> >> However, I don't see the message from any other server (and we have a >> good number), so I don't understand why it wouldn't show up from another >> 10-30 machines. > > Well, did you at least *look* in his home directory? If you look and > it's not there, it's probably something else, but I don't think you > should discard that before actually looking at it. > I really don't see that I need to: his home directory's on another system, and I don't see it happening from logs from any other system running gnome when he logs on, and he tells me he doesn't know anything about it, either, and since he's been a sysadmin here for years, and knows the systems, I believe him. It has to be stored somewhere on this one server. Can you suggest any reason that you think it's not? *IF* I understand this correctly, the "simple greeter" shows up when you wake up the screensaver, and displays the names of those recently logged in, and it *seems* as though it can also display pictures. Given the location and filename, I was assuming that it gets them that way. which would imply that it might work *if* the home directory was always mounted, not automounted on logon. With those assumptions, my guess was that there's a configuration that tells it to look in a user's home directory for such a file. mark