From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Mar 4 20:53:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from post-20.mail.nl.demon.net (post-20.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17CC837B416 for ; Mon, 4 Mar 2002 20:53:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.194.207] (helo=mailhost.raggedclown.net) by post-20.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #2) id 16i6x1-0001AO-00 for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Tue, 05 Mar 2002 04:53:23 +0000 Received: from angel.raggedclown.net (angel.raggedclown.intra [192.168.1.7]) by mailhost.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mail Gateway [buffy]) with ESMTP id 3F53C13040 for ; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 05:53:22 +0100 (CET) Received: by angel.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Host [angel], from userid 1005) id C1E5122593; Tue, 5 Mar 2002 05:53:17 +0100 (CET) Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 05:53:17 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Taming Netscape Navigator? Message-ID: <20020305045317.GA9612@raggedclown.net> References: <20020302044536.GA1321@raggedclown.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 07:46:54PM -0800, Jamie Bowden wrote: > On Sat, 2 Mar 2002, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > > :On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 09:06:51PM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: > :> Jeremy C. Reed types: > :> > Can anyone share some experiences or advice on how to control netscape? > :> > > :Netscape is about 12 million lines of code, it is a gorilla. > :There is no known platform on which it runs without dying on you..I > :would say on my work Solaris system, which involves practically constant > :use of Netscape googling and the repulsive Netscape mail it dies 1-2 a > :day. It just disappears. I have an alias set for "rm ~/.netscape/lock". > > You don't need to do that. If netscape finds a lock file, it verifies > that the process that initiated the lock is really there. If not, it > ignores it. Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't. Believe me. I use the damn thing every day, all day, and I am well aware of how to find if a process is running or not on Solaris. -- Regards Cliff Sarginson -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message