diff -ur nautilus.17b-orig/cli.c nautilus.17b/cli.c
--- nautilus.17b-orig/cli.c	Mon Jan 18 07:42:31 1999
+++ nautilus.17b/cli.c	Mon May 15 16:22:32 2000
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@
 #include <stdarg.h>
 #include <ctype.h>
 #ifdef linux
+#include <sys/stat.h>           /* man 2 stat
 #include <unistd.h>			/* for memory lock */
 #include <sys/mman.h>		/* for memory lock */
 #endif
@@ -57,6 +58,9 @@
 extern char    *optarg;
 extern int      optind;
 
+
+#define CONFIGFILENAMLEN 256
+
 void 
 main(int argc, char *argv[])
 {
@@ -65,6 +69,7 @@
     char            connected;
     char            vsound = TRUE;
     char           *fname;
+    char            fname1[CONFIGFILENAMLEN];
     char           *pw;
     char            pw1[MAX_SKEY_LEN+1];
     char            pw2[MAX_SKEY_LEN+1];
@@ -93,9 +98,28 @@
     }
 	
     /* read configuration file */
-    if ((fname = getenv("NAUTILUS_CONFIG_FILE")) != NULL)
-		if (ReadConfigFile(fname) == FAIL)
+
+    if ((fname = getenv("NAUTILUS_CONFIG_FILE")) != NULL) {
+
+	if (ReadConfigFile(fname) == FAIL) 
+		exit(1);
+
+#if defined(unix)       /* try home directory */
+    
+
+    } else {
+
+       struct stat BUF;
+ 
+	strncpy(fname1,getenv("HOME"),CONFIGFILENAMLEN);
+	strcat (fname1,"/.nautilus.cfg");
+        if (stat(fname1, &BUF) == 0){  /* stat succes, File exists */
+		if (ReadConfigFile(fname1) == FAIL)
 			exit(1);
+	}
+	
+#endif
+     }
 	
     /* parse arguments */
 #if defined(unix)