Re: netscape won't use disk cache?!
Finally! Someone with the same problem I've been having. I just figured
it was a problem I'd caused, rather than a problem with the package...
No one has answered this one yet though. :-(
On Fri, 18 Apr 1997, David Pfitzner wrote:
> The problem: netscape seems to be refusing to use disk cache.
>
> Some details:
> Debian 1.2 (based on Infomagic Dec'96, various upgrades)
> netscape_3.01-4.deb used as installer for:
> netscape-v301-export.x86-unknown-linux-elf.tar.gz
>
> It's configured (under options etc) to use disk cache; it creates the
> directory ~/.netscape/cache if necessary, and the file index.db;
> there _is_ free space on the disk ...
> But no other files ever appear in the cache directory, and pages are not
> cached between sessions.
>
> Things which didn't help:
> - (re)moving ~/.netscape (ie to reset user-config);
> - using different user (including root);
> - purging and re-installing netscape package.
>
> I started getting paranoid and wondering if I ever had netscape
> using disk cache, but backups from my previous Slackware install
> (and netscape 3.0) _do_ show cache files.
> So I tried the 3.0 netscape binary that I had used with Slackware
> (from netscape-v30-export.x86-unknown-linux-elf.tar.gz)
> and it still didn't use disk cache!
>
> Which suggests to me that there is something wrong with my setup which
> netscape doesn't like (and which was ok under Slackware), rather than,
> eg, a problem with the Debian netscape-installer.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> I'm using a modem, so it's rather annoying to wait to download files
> which should already be on my hard drive...
>
> -- David Pfitzner
>
>
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