On 12/17/2016 08:57 AM, Jonathan Billings wrote: > On Dec 17, 2016, at 9:23 AM, geo.inbox.ignored <geo.inbox.ignored at gmail.com> wrote: >> what i am now in wonder of is if there is any differance in file >> between the 2 computers. >> >> ie, is there a differance between a 32 bit and 64 bit system's >> /.dbus/sessions-bus/* file? >> >> as said, a web search nor reading thru pages, ie, faq, help, doc >> pages at http://www.freedesktop.org/software/dbus/ <http://www.freedesktop.org/software/dbus/> gave no >> indication of such. > > 1.) There is no /.dbus/ directory on any CentOS systems I’ve used. It > sounds to me like someone tried to run a dbus-aware user program as root > where $HOME=/. It would be regenerated if you did that again. The > system-level dbus files are in /var/lib/dbus. The systemd init system uses > dbus to communicate, but it uses a private socket file. > }} maybe not on a mac system, but file has been present on 686 and x86_64 intel systems that i have installed. at least, iirc, for versions 5.x thru 6.8. > 2.) That said, yes, the dbus configuration is a per-host config with a > unique machine-id for the system dbus-daemon and unique dbus sessions > for users. They’re generated when you first run a session. > }} when you say 'first run a session', are you meaning when system is first installed? or when a session that uses dbus-daemon is run? -- The important thing is not to stop questioning. - Albert Einstein CentOS GNU/Linux 6.8 KDE 4.3.4 peace out. tc,hago. g . =+= Tired of having your microsoft os hacked? Change to Linux os, used by microsoft hackers. =+= If Bill Gates got a dime for every time Windows crashes... ...oh, wait. He does. THAT explains it! =+= in a world with out fences, who needs gates. =+=