Re: a couple of questions

[cjw44@cam.ac.uk (Colin Watson)]

hfinley@pacbell.net (Hagen Finley) wrote:
>  2. I just recently installed a new browser Netscape 407 but
>when I try to
>launch it nothing happens. I even tried installing mosaic too
>but  mosaic is
>not visible in my gnome desktop environment. I do not know
>what's wrong can
>somebody please advice?
>
>Try launching it as non-root. I installed Netscape 4.07 from the tar format
>on RedHat and it wouldn't let me run Netscape as root. Its possible your
>encountering the same security issue. Supposedly, there is a way to allow
>root  to run Netscape but I don't recall where that setting is made.

I wouldn't bother trying to find out. I can't think of any good reason
to run Netscape as root. If somehow your user X session is broken and
you need to find out from the net how to fix it, you can always use lynx
or w3m, which are both perfectly good text-mode web browsers.

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Colin Watson                                           [cjw44@cam.ac.uk]