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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au!news.apana.org.au!cantor.edge.net.au!news.teragen.com.au!news.access.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!newsfeeds.sol.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!worldnet.att.net!howland.erols.net!news.nacamar.de!news.bln.de!mind.de!nostromo.in-berlin.de!ripley From: ripley@nostromo.in-berlin.de (H. Eckert) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Netscape on 2.1.(5/6): out of memory when sending mail Date: 6 Mar 1997 10:58:54 GMT Organization: Private access site (FreeBSD 2.1-R), Berlin, Germany, Europe Lines: 19 Message-ID: <slrn5ht8re.5rl.ripley@nortobor.nostromo.in-berlin.de> References: <331C51C5.547F@grolier.Fr> <5fjh5i$pqg$2@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: nortobor.nostromo.in-berlin.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: slrn (0.8.8.2 UNIX) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:36695 un1i@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (Philipp Mergenthaler): > It has been mentioned in this group (in the last few weeks), that running > Netscape as root screws up something, so that other users can't use > it any more. I don't know anything more about this, since I've never > run Netscape as root - I'd never trust it that much. Maybe my addition to the netscape invokation script (/usr/local/bin/netscape sets some env.vars and exec's the real netscape binary /usr/local/lib/netscape/netscape.bin) should be incorporated into the netscape port for 2.2 so that this problem won't show up again ? Greetings, Ripley -- H. Eckert, 10777 Berlin, Germany ISO 8859-1: Ä=Ae, Ö=Oe, Ü=Ue, ä=ae, ö=oe, ü=ue, ß=sz. "(Technobabbel)" (Jetrel) - "Müssen wir uns diesen Schwachsinn wirklich anhören?" (Neelix)