From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 11 12:58:32 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from blackhelicopters.org (geburah.blackhelicopters.org [209.69.178.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B055637B404 for ; Mon, 11 Mar 2002 12:58:29 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mwlucas@localhost) by blackhelicopters.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g2BKwMh87514; Mon, 11 Mar 2002 15:58:22 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mwlucas) Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 15:58:21 -0500 From: Michael Lucas To: Jonathan Chen Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Mozilla 0.9.8 and jdk1.3.1 Message-ID: <20020311155821.A87498@blackhelicopters.org> References: <3C8CE913.8010407@garlic.com> <20020311173658.GB19997@swansea.cableinet.net> <20020311112841.72a4fdb9.scott@lampert.org> <20020311145627.A87083@blackhelicopters.org> <20020312091658.A10801@grimoire.chen.org.nz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020312091658.A10801@grimoire.chen.org.nz>; from jonc@chen.org.nz on Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 09:16:58AM +1300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Well, it sure looks like a symlink: pedicular~;ls -lai /usr/X11R6/lib/mozilla/plugins/ total 38 548800 drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Mar 6 12:25 . 548745 drwxr-xr-x 10 root wheel 1536 Feb 26 14:16 .. 549285 lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 62 Feb 26 14:16 libjavaplugin_oji.so -> /usr/local/jdk1.3.1/jre/plugin/i386/ns600/libjavaplugin_oji.so 548801 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 18900 Feb 26 13:16 libnullplugin.so 553025 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 11988 Mar 6 12:25 npflash.so pedicular~ My main problem is that nothing appear to be wrong. If you go to Mozilla's "about plugins" page, Java is listed. no error messages show up in either a terminal window or the console. But Java apps simply do not appear. :-( Any suggestions? On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 09:16:58AM +1300, Jonathan Chen wrote: > On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 02:56:27PM -0500, Michael Lucas wrote: > > > > > > So, does anyone have any suggestions on what to do if it doesn't work? > > > > I have jdk1.3.1 and Mozilla 0.98, but no applets show. :-( > > > > What sort of errors are you having? Do you have the symbolic link from > Mozilla's plugin directory to the JDK's plugin implementation? Note > that it has to be a *symbolic* link, not a hard one, not a copy, due > to some weird voodoo magic the implemntation requires for it to work. > -- > Jonathan Chen > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity > -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. -- Michael Lucas mwlucas@FreeBSD.org, mwlucas@BlackHelicopters.org my FreeBSD column: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons http://www.blackhelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message