Hi.
I've got an issue. My clients all use KDE, StarOffice, and Mozilla as their
basic tools. I can already hear some of you in the back asking, "Need some more
memory, buddy?" In fact, this is the problem. I couldn't help but notice that
Mozilla 0.9.6 has a few quirks. Namely, it will randomly vanish from the
client's screens without actually killing the process. So the user opens another
session of Mozilla and this cycle repeats. With only a dozen users so far, my
server with 768 megs of RAM is already topped, nearly all of it from Mozilla
usage. I'd like to try Opera, I can't it to work at all.
But then I've been toying with the idea of using local apps. Perhaps this will
solve the problem if the app is kept locally on the client. So I did what I
could to get local apps running (I'm using 2.09pre4) and I *think* its working
because I stalled the local_apps program and edited my lts.conf file to contain
LOCAL_WM = Y and LOCAL_APPS = Y for a specific client without crashing like it
used to do before I fixed a small NIS glitch. But now I'm a bit confused as to
how exactly to make it work so the application the client runs is actually run
locally. In the docs I read the bit about getting Netscape to run locally so I
decided to experiment with that first. I downloaded the local_netscape files
and copied the tree so now I have and /opt/ltsp/i386/usr/local/netscape folder.
Then I made a shell script with the following lines to execute it that I just
copied from the documentation:
HOST=`echo $DISPLAY | awk -F: '{ print $1 }'`
rsh ${HOST} MOZILLA_HOME=/usr/local/netscape \
/usr/local/netscape/netscape -display ${DISPLAY}
Okay. The problem I have now is that if I run this script nothing happens. From
a command line, it just freezes unless I CTRL-C out of it. But nothing else
happens, even after several minutes.
So here are my questions:
1) What could I be doing wrong getting Netscape to work locally?
2) My users hate the way Netscape looks, which is why they dig Mozilla,
especially the tabbing feature. Is there any way to get Mozilla to run locally?
3) If I can get Mozilla to run locally, would this actually help me with the
bigger problem of extreme memory usage on the server?
As always, thanks for any help. I do appreciate it.
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