Re: Netscape http://wierdness on startup
On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 10:40:26AM -0500, John Foster wrote:
-|I recently used the Debian Potato files to install/upgrade Netscape
-|Communicator 4.75 (not the tar ball installer but several smaller files)
-|and now when I start the browser it pops up an error message saying it
-|can not find the server. That's not unusual as it is seeking this url;
-|http://
-|there is nothing to look for. I have altered the preferences to try
-|every possibility with the same result every time. My conclusion is that
-|there is something that is preventing the edited preferences from being
-|used. Has anyone else had the same problem? Anyone know of a fix? All
-|else seems to work fine, but this just bugs me! Thanks for any advice.
-|--
Although I don't have my Debian 2.2 installed yet (I'm still using
FreeBSD), I had a similar problem when experimenting with SuSE, RH, MD,
and Caldera. I don't remember which one had the problem but....
Do a "which netscape". This will point you to the exec. file. This file
is actually a startup script. Somewhere in the script they are running
Netscape with a "command line option" (i.e. exec netscape <URL>) that is a
URL for startup. It is the script that needs to be debugged and repaired.
Hope this helps...
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Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA
chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com
Preferred O/S: FreeBSD 4.1
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