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Why doesn Netscape run as root?

April 26, 2017netscape run

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Why doesn Netscape run as root?

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This is a bug in Netscape. Due to a Netscape 4.x bug (it thrashes the $HOME environment variable) the X11 library cannot find root’s ..Xauthority file in the root dir unless your current directory is /. Large, complex programs (especially those taking input from & to the Internet) should not be run as root. Experienced users and Administrators run as root only for essential sysadmin tasks. If you must run as root, try one of these tricks: * Make sure you run Netscape with a current directory of / (so that the relative pathname ‘.Xauthority’ works) * Or start Netscape with HOME=”/.” (so that Netscape doesn’t thrash the $HOME variable) * Or start Netscape with an environment variable XAUTHORITY=”/.Xauthority” [Thanks to Juergen Keil via John Groenveld] _________________________________________________________________ (7.8) I moved my PCI host adapter to another slot and the system won’t boot! Don’t move the adapter. It isn’t a supported feature in Solaris and isn’t easy to recover from.

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This is a bug in Netscape. Due to a Netscape 4.x bug (it thrashes the $HOME environment variable) the X11 library cannot find root’s .Xauthority file in the root dir unless your current directory is /. Large, complex programs (especially those taking input from & to the Internet) should not be run as root. Experienced users and Administrators run as root only for essential sysadmin tasks.

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(7.8) I moved my PCI host adapter to another slot and the system won’t boot! (7.

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This is a bug in Netscape. Due to a Netscape 4.x bug (it thrashes the $HOME environment variable) the X11 library cannot find root’s .Xauthority file in the root dir unless your current directory is /. Large, complex programs (especially those taking input from & to the Internet) should not be run as root. Experienced users and Administrators run as root only for essential sysadmin tasks. If you must run as root, try one of these tricks: • Make sure you run Netscape with a current directory of / (so that the relative pathname ‘.Xauthority’ works) • Or start Netscape with HOME=”/.” (so that Netscape doesn’t thrash the $HOME variable) • Or start Netscape with an environment variable XAUTHORITY=”/.

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This is a bug in Netscape. Due to a Netscape 4.x bug (it thrashes the $HOME environment variable) the X11 library cannot find root’s ..Xauthority file in the root dir unless your current directory is /. Large, complex programs (especially those taking input from & to the Internet) should not be run as root. Experienced users and Administrators run as root only for essential sysadmin tasks. If you must run as root, try one of these tricks: * Make sure you run Netscape with a current directory of / (so that the relative pathname ‘.Xauthority’ works) * Or start Netscape with HOME=”/.” (so that Netscape doesn’t thrash the $HOME variable) * Or start Netscape with an environment variable XAUTHORITY=”/.Xauthority” [Thanks to Juergen Keil via John Groenveld] __________________________________________________ _______________ (7.8) I moved my PCI host adapter to another slot and the system won’t boot! Don’t move the adapter. It isn’t a supported feature in Solaris and isn’t easy to recover from.