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Date:      Tue, 5 Mar 2002 05:53:17 +0100
From:      Cliff Sarginson <csfbsd@raggedclown.net>
To:        freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Taming Netscape Navigator?
Message-ID:  <20020305045317.GA9612@raggedclown.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10203041940150.63339-100000@moo.sysabend.org>
References:  <20020302044536.GA1321@raggedclown.net> <Pine.BSF.4.10.10203041940150.63339-100000@moo.sysabend.org>

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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 <reed@reedmedia.net> 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 -- <csfbsd@raggedclown.net>

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