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Date:      Sat, 10 Feb 1996 00:05:46 -0600 (CST)
From:      Daniel Baker <dbaker@cocoa.ops.neosoft.com>
To:        Carey Nairn <cp_nairn@cc.utas.edu.au>
Cc:        Binh Do <binhdo@cs.ubc.ca>, questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Netscape's lock
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.960210000444.6976A-100000@cocoa.ops.neosoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.91.960210164015.23543A-100000@wedge.its.utas.edu.au>

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On Sat, 10 Feb 1996, Carey Nairn wrote:

> On Fri, 9 Feb 1996, Binh Do wrote:
> 
> > >From time to time, when I start Netscape 2.0, I got a message saying that lock file
> > is being used by someone else and I can continue but cannot use tha cache. Why is
> > that as I am the only user on my machine. Usually I have to delete the "lock" file
> > in .netscape. Anyone experiences the same thing?
> > 
> > Thank you.
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > 
> > Binh Do
> > Department Of Computer Science
> > University Of BC, Canada
> > 
> I have experienced this but only as a result of rebooting/exiting X 
> wthout closing the application cleanly.  If I always quit the Netscape 
> properly this message never appears.
Yah, netscape write a .lock file and deletes it upon close.  If you're 
not running netscape, and just didn't shut it cleanly, you can just do a 
rm ~/.netscape/.lock or ~/.netscape/lock whichever it is, i don't 
remember..

Daniel

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