> On Dec 17, 2016, at 10:08 AM, geo.inbox.ignored <geo.inbox.ignored at gmail.com> wrote: > > 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. Who said it was on a Mac? Oh… because I have a mac laptop and I’m replying to you with it? Yes, I am so dumb I can’t tell the difference between my mac and my linux systems. I just looked at both a el5 and a el6 x86_64 system, neither have a /.dbus directory. > 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? I’m saying that perhaps these files were created when you ran some dbus-aware client as root, and it started a user dbus-daemon. -- Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>