Re: a couple of questions

[hypnos <hypnos@m-net.arbornet.org>]

>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.

Running Netscape Navigator v3.4

[from /usr/bin/X11/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

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