I got the answer to the trailing slash question: the trailing / on the destination directory makes no difference. Put a / on the source directory determines whether you copy the source folder and its contents vs. leaving the / slash and getting only the contents of the source directory (but not the directory name itself) in the copy. On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 11:53 AM, Brian Cluff wrote: > On 01/10/2016 04:52 AM, Michael Havens wrote: > >> really? So are you saying that with ubuntu you do not need to have a home >> partition? >> > You don't NEED to have a home partition on any Linux distribution, it can > just be a good idea, especially if you change out distributions a lot since > a separate partition would allow you to preserve your user files between > installs. I tend to just put everything in one partition for most simple > desktop installs since it eliminates having to juggle partitions around or > play with LVM later if we find to need move space around. It's almost > never a problem. > >> so I did verify that the problem is my user as I created another account >> and logged in and everything is fine >> > Great, sounds like you can just get rid of config files and then see about > fixing your packages later and save yourself a bunch of time. > >> Here is something weird that happened: I was working on my computer and >> had a glass of wine. I then went to bed and woke at like 2AM. After waking >> I went into the computer room and had no internet. I went back to bed at >> this point to wake at 6 to find I still had no internet. So I called Cox to >> hear the familiar 'we don't support Linux but everything is fine on our >> end.' So I restart the computer and internet was back. >> > Best guess. The cable modem needed to be reset and then your network > connection needed to be told to get another IP via DHCP which was > accomplished by rebooting. You could have probably just told your computer > to get another IP address and that could have worked just as well. > > Brian Cluff > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- :-)~MIKE~(-: