Re: Newbie: Netscape woes
David Carlile wrote:
>
> Thank you very much. I don't feel too dumb... There wasn't any sort of error
> message.
There would have been one if you had run it from an xterm. Try it and
see - load an xterm and type "netscape". If you're root, you'll see the
error.
The restriction that Netscape can't be run as root comes from the
wrapper script that one of the Debian developers has created, which is
run when you type 'netscape' at a prompt or run it from a menu. This
restriction is not a 'feature' of Netscape itself. The wrapper script
prints out an error message, but if you didn't run Netscape from a
prompt you won't see it.
I suppose it would be nice if the wrapper script popped up an error
message window, you might even like to file a wishlist bug against
netscape for it, but I don't think it's worth the effort as you
shouldn't be running as the root user anyway. Run as a normal user and
use 'su' to temporarily change to root when required.
Matthew
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