Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2001 01:07:41 -0400 From: Shannon <shannon@widomaker.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Odd Netscape behavior (multiple invocation) Message-ID: <20010704010741.A28978@widomaker.com> In-Reply-To: <20010702122858.A15877@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>; from jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org on Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 12:28:58PM %2B0100 References: <20010702122858.A15877@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
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On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 12:28:58PM +0100, j mckitrick wrote: > > I have recently (a week or 2) started seeing odd behaviour with Netscape. I > am running linux netscape 4.77, and when i close it down then restart > nothing happens. Then i check 'top' and there is another instance running. > I kill one, and the netscape appears. Shouldn't the wrapper be preventing > this? How are you closing down the first copy of Netscape? Netscape is one of the buggiest apps around, and often seems to leave a dead or near-dead process hanging around, or worse yet it sometimes leaves one that is eating up CPU and memory. Wether or not the wrapper prevents this or not depends on which wrapper you are talking about. I generally use Netscape from a shell script which kills current copies, removes the ~/.netscape/lock file, and then starts Netscape. Of course, you can be more sophisticated than that. I only do this with versions that cause me a lot of pain. -- shannon@widomaker.com _________________________________________________ ______________________/ armchairrocketscientistgraffitiexenstentialist "And in billows of might swell the Saxons before her,-- Unite, oh unite! Or the billows burst o'er her!" -- Downfall of the Gael To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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