Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 02:20:06 +0300 From: Andrew Pantyukhin <infofarmer@FreeBSD.org> To: Tino Engel <elrap@web.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: linux firefox Message-ID: <20071113232005.GJ46672@amilo.cenkes.org> In-Reply-To: <473A2267.6020208@web.de> References: <002601c823d8$f80822d0$dedca8c0@dragon> <473640F5.6010506@web.de> <47365D0E.7000504@web.de> <20071113064554.GB46672@amilo.cenkes.org> <473A2267.6020208@web.de>
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On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 11:17:11PM +0100, Tino Engel wrote: > Andrew Pantyukhin schrieb: >> On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 01:38:22AM +0000, Tino Engel wrote: >> >>> Dear FreeBSD folks, >>> >>> I have a weird problem: >>> >>> linux-firefox and linux-firefox-devel behave the same way. >>> When I quit them, and try to restart them, they complain about beeing >>> already running. >>> >>> I have to manually delete >>> >>> /usr/compat/linux/root/.mozilla/firefox/*.prpfile/lock >>> /usr/compat/linux/root/.mozilla/firefox/*.profile/.parentlock >>> >>> to be able to start them again. >>> >>> Normal firefox and firefox-devel do not behave this way, but I want to be >>> able to use the linux-flashplugin. >>> >>> Any hints? (Apart from writing a wrapper removing the lockfiles... How >>> ugly) >>> >> >> - Never run Firefox under root. Please tell if it doesn't help >> > I do not have another account Using your computer under root account is the Windows way of doing things. But even in that world it is now strongly recommended to create a non-privileged account and use it for most tasks. In the Unix world, root is most commonly reserved for system administration tasks. Run adduser (without any arguments) to enter a simple interactive process of adding a new user - and don't use root when you don't need it. See the FreeBSD Handbook for more info on this and other topics.
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