[18128] in Athena Bugs
Re: netscape-local and helper apps, default bookmarks.html
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Thu Aug 10 17:11:43 2000
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 17:09:44 -0400
Message-Id: <200008102109.RAA05199@d-140-142-110-125.dhcp2.washington.edu>
To: Abby Fox <ajfox@mit.edu>
CC: bugs@mit.edu
In-reply-to: "[18040] in Athena Bugs"
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
These should both be fixed in 8.4.10. I'm closing the report.
Jonathon
> 1. Some common helper apps aren't configured when local netscape is
> used. Looks like this is because preferences.js uses /mit/infoagents
> paths for a few things including mailcap and mime.types, but the locker
> isn't attached. Maybe the appropriate fix is to add infoagents to the
> list in /var/athena/infoagents/arch/share/bin/netscape.adjusted:
>
> common_lockers="acro graphics gnu outland swtools"
> /bin/athena/attach -h -n -q $common_lockers
>
> If you do something else like change preferences.js to point at the
> local files in all cases, note that mailcap also contains
> /mit/infoagents paths.
>
> 2. A first-time user will see an error message at launch:
>
> cp: cannot access /var/athena/infoagents/www/netscape/bookmarks.html
>
> Looks like that file doesn't get copied locally.
>
