jim@jagmac2.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski) (08/03/90)
Actually, it's more a work around... Anyway, the delay is due to the desktop file being created and also having your home directory show up as a folder on the desktop. (it also looks like your home-directory is MOVED to /... click open the "/" icon, and there you are. You no longer show up under /users or where-ever. If so, this could also be the delay). Anyway, to avoid this delay, login under console mode then do a "mac32" (make sure you have mac32 aliased to "mac32;screenrestore" so when you logout, the screen clears and you're back at the console). -- ======================================================================= #include <std/disclaimer.h> =:^) Jim Jagielski NASA/GSFC, Code 711.1 jim@jagmac2.gsfc.nasa.gov Greenbelt, MD 20771 "Kilimanjaro is a pretty tricky climb. Most of it's up, until you reach the very, very top, and then it tends to slope away rather sharply."
ron@afsg.apple.com (Ron Flax) (08/03/90)
In article <2983@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov> jim@jagmac2.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski) writes: >Anyway, the delay is due to the desktop file being created and >also having your home directory show up as a folder on the desktop. >(it also looks like your home-directory is MOVED to /... click open >the "/" icon, and there you are. You no longer show up under >/users or where-ever. If so, this could also be the delay). Actually that's not quite what happens... the delay typically occurs when different users login and share the same system folder (ie. /mac/sys/System Folder) and the users have different access rights. Like the difference between 'root' and 'ron' on the same machine. A workaround is to use the systemfolder(1) command to create a personal "System Folder" in your $HOME. That way the desktop file (& filesystem cache) get updated for that user only and will not need to be rebuilt between logins unless you crash the Mac environment or exit it with Command-Ctrl-E. Also the apparent moving of your $HOME to '/' is done in the in memory version of the filesystem cache, and no files/directories are actually moved. To prove this, login and open a CommandShell window, now type 'pwd' and notice that your $HOME is where it always was... -- Ron Flax UUCP: ..!uunet!afsg!ron Internet: ron@afsg.apple.com Apple Federal Systems Group, Complex Systems