Re: Bus error in Netscape

[Michelle Coelho <mcoelho@purdue.edu>]

On Sun, 23 May 1999, George Bonser wrote:

> 
> Edit the wrapper script to uncomment the allow root.
> 
> You can find the wrapper script by following the symlinks. Start with
> ls -l /etc/alternatives/netscape

George,
 
/etc/alternatives did not have a link, so I added one using 
ln -s /usr/X11R6/bin/netscape.

Then I went on to comment out the part of the wrapper that 
does not allow the root to run netscape:
#
# Don't allow running netscape as root
#                                     
#if [ $UID -eq 0 -o $EUID -eq 0 ]; then
#    echo "$0: Cannot be run an root (for security reasons)"
#    exit 1                                                 
#fi        
 
So after all of this, I ran netscape:
pussycat:~# netscape
Netscape: Ignoring unsupported netscape contenttype in user 
mailcap file.
Warning: 
    Cannot allocate colormap entry for default background

Warning: 
    Cannot allocate colormap entry for default background

Bus error
pussycat:~# 

It's the same problem as when I ran netscape as a user.

Thanks for your help.
Michelle
 
Michelle Maria Coelho 
Department of Computer and Information Science
Purdue School of Science

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