/.config found in "/", what is this?

[michaa7]

I found "/.config" containing "Trolltech.conf"

I wonder what business a config file has to do in the "/" directory. Furthermore even root can't delete this file.

Can anyone give me some insight what's going on here. This doesn't seem normal.

[ralul]

It is some qt config created by some root process, which is probably running, because you cannot delete. Kdm?

[dibl]

That's normal for system running KDE (perhaps RazorQT as well).

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root@imerabox:/# ls -la .config
total 12
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 Nov  3  2011 .
drwxr-xr-x 27 root root 4096 Apr 18 11:59 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  549 Apr  4 09:40 Trolltech.conf

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/config-trolltech-conf-875568/

[DeepDayze]

To me that's not a good place for this Qt config file...why can't it be placed in either /etc or /var/run (if this is a transient file)?

Or as Qt is cross platform perhaps this is an intended design.

[dibl]

Well, according the Arch guy, this is the config for root when using "kdesu", so it does kinda make sense from that perspective.

The user also has the same Trolltech file:

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don@imerabox:~$ ls -la .config | grep Trolltech
-rw-------  1 don don 80929 Apr 19 11:46 Trolltech.conf


[michaa7]

Thanks @ all for the info

Well, according the Arch guy, this is the config for root when using "kdesu", so it does kinda make sense from that perspective...

For user "root" it could better live in /root.

[DeepDayze]

Thanks @ all for the info

Well, according the Arch guy, this is the config for root when using "kdesu", so it does kinda make sense from that perspective...

For user "root" it could better live in /root.

yup, and in each user's home dir as well.

[dibl]

For user "root" it could better live in /root.

LOL -- yes, that location was not overlooked!

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root@imerabox:/# ls -la /root/.config
total 48
drwxr-xr-x  6 root root  4096 Jan  5 14:52 .
drwx------ 20 root root  4096 Apr 20 15:40 ..
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  4096 Dec  5  2011 autostart
drwx------  2 root root  4096 Jan  5 14:52 htop
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  4096 Jun 24  2012 oxygen-gtk
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  4096 Nov  3  2011 qtcurve
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 21827 Apr 15 11:08 Trolltech.conf

[michaa7]

So we can assume each user has a troll-file in his home, root too (it seems my root could abstain from needing it), and everyone else (who the heck) may use the one polluting "/". That's (not) funny.  :shock:

[dibl]

In the past, there were people who filed bug reports on this.

http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=92815

But that was 2011, and now we have 2013 .......