> I installed the netscape package, with the netscape binary file in
> /tmp, just as the instructions said. The thing installed OK, and was
> configured OK, but at the end of the process I got the following
> message:
>
> ..
> - Netscape will not be able to read user mail spool files unless you set
> the "external movemail program" to "/usr/lib/netscape/movemail". Changing
> the permissions of /var/spool/mail to 1777 (as suggested by Netscape) will
> introduce a small security hole which, under some circumstances, could
> allow someone else to get access to another's mail.
OK, this one is fine.
>
> Update-menus: waiting for dpkg to finish (forking to background)
> Update-menus: (checking /var/lib/dpkg/lock)
This is fine too, it's just the "update-menus" command in the
postinst script. If you don't like seeing this, edit
/etc/menu-methods/menu.config, to say somethign like
verbosity=quiet
> Installation OK. Hit RETURN.
This is the postinst again.
> shell-init: could not get current
> directory: get\cwd: cannot access parent directories
This I don't understand. I wrote update-menus, and I've
seen quite a few error messages from update-menus. But
I've never seen this one (nor do I ever expect this).
the place at which it comes makes it actually rather unlikely
that it's from update-menus: update-menus only continues working
_after_ dpkg finished, which is usually after you have your prompt
back. This message seems to have come before any command prompt,
so I suspect it's from the netscape postinst.
I cannot check now, cause I've got a very old netscape package
installed here, and that one doesn't to update-menus at all.
> Is this of any importance? Is there anything I can do to fix this? I
> think I remember a post regarding this issue a while ago, something
> like there is a command spawned by root that runs as a different user,
> and that user doesn't have read access to all the directories in the
> path to a certain file. Is this it?
Possible. Take a look at /var/lib/dpkg/info/netscape.postinst,
and see what it does after it says " Installation OK. Hit RETURN.".
maybe that gives a clue?
Thanks,
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