From: Janez Kosmrlj <postnalista at googlemail.com> >I did consider that, but if you have about 1000 machines distributed in 4 countries, then this is not really an option. >I am trying to find a way, that can be packaged to an rpm package. If I use the menu, I get in my ~/.openoffice.org2.0/user/registry/data/org/openoffice/Office/Paths.xcu: <value>file:///opt</value> Notice the 'file://'... The global setting for me is in: /usr/lib/openoffice.org/share/registry/data/org/openoffice/Office/Paths.xcu But the global setting is useless for existing users (who already have local settings)... JD