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Date:      Sun, 29 Oct 1995 08:52:39 -0500 (EST)
From:      Kim Culhan <kimc@w8hd.org>
To:        "Gasparovski / Daniel (ISE)" <u923168@student.canberra.edu.au>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@time.cdrom.com
Subject:   Re: netscape 2.0b1 fouls directory
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.951029085058.212A-100000@w8hd.w8hd.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.91.951029194627.3849A-100000@student.canberra.edu.au>

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On Sun, 29 Oct 1995, Gasparovski / Daniel (ISE) wrote:

> > > Netscape 2.0b1 created a directory ~/.netscape-cache which cannot be rm'd.
> > > I mv'd it to .foo and restart netscape which recreated the file .netscape 

> > > How can I repair this netscape damage ?

> The *exact* same thing happened to me.  I rebooted into single user mode, 
> fsck'd the partition, and it removed the directory.  When I ran Netscape 
> again, it worked as normal.  It probably only stuffs thing up when 
> "upgrading" the old .netscape files.
> 
> This was done as "root".

Yes, running fsck this way does the repair, great ! Thanks !

kim

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