From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Nov 7 08:31:29 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id IAA24116 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 7 Nov 1995 08:31:29 -0800 Received: from io.org (io.org [142.77.70.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id IAA24111 for ; Tue, 7 Nov 1995 08:31:23 -0800 Received: from flinch.io.org (flinch.io.org [198.133.36.153]) by io.org (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id LAA09371; Tue, 7 Nov 1995 11:30:43 -0500 Date: Tue, 7 Nov 1995 11:30:48 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Tao To: Jake Hamby cc: hackers@freefall.freebsd.org, "Jordan K. Hubbard" Subject: Re: netscape 2.0b2 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 6 Nov 1995, Jake Hamby wrote: > > > 1) Whenever I start 2.0b2, I get the message: "Netscape has detected a > > /home/jehamby/.netscape/lock file. > > As it turns out, I traced this problem to my dial-on-demand PPP setup. I had the same problem on my FreeBSD box, but it was located on our Ethernet LAN. It's a new machine, so the IP address and hostname had not yet been added into our name server. Once I added it in though, the two errors (lock file and /etc/pwd.db problems) went away. I have not yet verified if this occurs under BSD/OS yet. -- Brian Tao (BT300, taob@io.org) Systems Administrator, Internex Online Inc. "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"