--- William H Bouterse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alan Shoemaker wrote: > > > > > > > "Warning: null child passed to XtManageChildren" > > > I get this on attempting to access messages > filters. > > > > > > This obviously has some bearing on why my > filters > > > are getting "disappeared" !? > > > > > > > William....that error message is caused by > corruption in the > > ~home/.netscape/mailrule file and is easily > corrected. The > > usual way the corruption happens is by using > copy/paste to > > create or edit the mail filters. Don't do that > any more and > > the corruption should no longer occur. > > > > To fix the file open it in an editor and visually > scan it for > > an occurrence of a linefeed followed by a bunch of > spaces. > > Remove the linefeed and spaces (make that entry > look like all > > of the other entries) and the file will again be > recognisable > > by netscape messenger. > > > > Alan > > Thanks Alan that did the trick. > I guess it wasn't a Cooker question but thnks for > helping!!! > > Totally a new one on me thats for sure. > Who would have thought !? > Such a simple solution to such an aggravating > problem. He he, that reminds of the time when I was working as a field engineer, and got an early evening emergency call from a Hospital that was about to inaugurate a new millions of dollar CT-Scan facility the next day. The imaging technician had a nasty problem with the custom software running on an SGI; he was getting an error "5342423-whatever-2443" and the software did not let him do anything at all. When he called the people that made the software (in Germany, he was on the US), they couldn't provide any answers, much less solve it before the inauguration; so they called us (kind of the local Unix gurus, he he). We went there, and after a few hours of "greping" and "diffing" (thank God it wasn't an NT application) thru the config files, we were able to find an unusual string in a file, and sure enough that was the problem ... after some asking and observation I was able to trace back the cause of the problem to an unconscious "cut-n-paste". The technician was a Mac user (one button people) using a three button mouse on a Unix workstation ... he was pounding every button indifferently! But if you think the tech suked, I think the real sucker was the programmer of an extremely expensive (read 100's of thousands $) application not doing proper string checks ;-) God I love "peer-review" OSS! ===== ________________________ Eugenio Diaz, BSEE/BSCE Linux Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/
