From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 9 21:42:21 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id VAA18830 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 9 Feb 1996 21:42:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from wedge.its.utas.edu.au (wedge.its.utas.edu.au [131.217.10.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA18823 for ; Fri, 9 Feb 1996 21:42:12 -0800 (PST) Received: (from cp_nairn@localhost) by wedge.its.utas.edu.au (8.7.1/8.6.6) id QAA23551; Sat, 10 Feb 1996 16:41:48 +1100 (EST) Date: Sat, 10 Feb 1996 16:41:47 +1100 (EST) From: Carey Nairn X-Sender: cp_nairn@wedge.its.utas.edu.au To: Binh Do cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Netscape's lock In-Reply-To: <9602091912.ZM12951@cascade.cs.ubc.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 9 Feb 1996, Binh Do wrote: > >From time to time, when I start Netscape 2.0, I got a message saying that lock file > is being used by someone else and I can continue but cannot use tha cache. Why is > that as I am the only user on my machine. Usually I have to delete the "lock" file > in .netscape. Anyone experiences the same thing? > > Thank you. > > > -- > > Binh Do > Department Of Computer Science > University Of BC, Canada > I have experienced this but only as a result of rebooting/exiting X wthout closing the application cleanly. If I always quit the Netscape properly this message never appears. ========================================================================= Carey Nairn ! email : Carey.Nairn@its.utas.edu.au Networks and Communications ! phone : (002) 20 7419 Information Technology Services ! fax : (002) 20 7898 University of Tasmania. ! =========================================================================