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... --- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com Preferred O/S: FreeBSD 4.1
