[19722] in Athena Bugs
Re: new netscape does bad things
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (t. belton)
Wed Aug 29 13:54:43 2001
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 13:51:15 -0400 (EDT)
From: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
To: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
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I don't get reports of this from anyone else, jhawk, nor have I seen it in
any of the test systems. I'm going with Greg's theory that somehow you
happened to hit the timing exactly wrong and your preferences got nuked.
Both the reversion to 'lp' and the cache going back to your local
directories are symptoms of Netscape prefs we specifically override with
NON-defaults.
On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, John Hawkinson wrote:
> I noticed earlier today that my default printer preference had
> changed from 'lpr -Pmeadow' to 'lp'. I didn't think much of it.
> Logging in now, I find:
>
> 22:05 **** Netscape is eating 572K of your quota! ****
> 22:05 To correct, this situation, quit Netscape, and then run
> 22:05 add infoagents
> 22:05 netscape-fix
> 22:05 cd
> 22:05 rm -rf .netscape/cache
>
> and sure enough I have a cache.
>
> Doubtless piles of other things have gone haywire, and it's related to the
> netscape update?
>
> FYI.
>
> --jhawk
>
