On Monday 03 July 2006 06:56, Joachim Backes wrote: > Having a lot of weird messages in /var/log/messages in my FC4 > machine such as > > Jul 2 10:08:43 lindb gconfd (backes-8188): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory" to a read-only configuration source at position 0 > Jul 2 10:08:43 lindb gconfd (backes-8188): Resolved address "xml:readwrite:/usr/people/backes/.gconf" to a writable configuration source at position 1 > Jul 2 10:08:43 lindb gconfd (backes-8188): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults" to a read-only configuration source at position 2 > Jul 2 10:08:46 lindb gconfd (backes-8188): Resolved address "xml:readwrite:/usr/people/backes/.gconf" to a writable configuration source at position 0 > > I guess it has to do with gnome. Actually, the program name is noted -- gconfd. This is the GNOME settings daemon, which is a service that GNOME applications use to store and retrieve their settings. > Does somebody know what this means? It is informative. It lets you know where the setting databases are coming from. I have no idea why the daemon logs these messages except for debugging purposes. I suppose this has come about because of lessons learned in resolving bugs over time. -- Garry T. Williams --- +1 678 656-4579
