I'm sorry, but you're not making any sense.
First off, My advice was to create a lynx.cfg file in your home
directory. That has absolutely nothing to do with system level
configuration files.
Secondly, if a system user can change system wide configuration files,
it's because your system administrators aren't doing their job
properly. Those configuration files should not be writable by anyone on
the system that is a regular user.
Giving advice to create and modify configuration files that live in your
home directory is a perfectly reasonable approach, and sometimes, the
only way to accomplish something. If your system is hosed from someone
messing with system level configuration files, that's not the fault of
anybody changing configuration files that live in their own home directory.
Whatever happened on dreamhost or shellworld is in no way related to
anyone making changes to their own configuration files.
Go yell at someone else.
On 11/30/2021 5:21 AM, Karen Lewellen wrote:
Travis,
Please do not ever advise anyone to tamper with a file associated with
a shared service like the one we have here.
I am expressing this because right now I am experiencing what happens
when someone, not myself, does this kind of tampering and not knowing
what they are doing, creates problems for everyone.
First our lynx startfile disappeared entirely..for two days.
then when it returned, it came to a start page that does not work
fully with lynx, all the items provided lead to YouTube, which as
others have noted no longer really works with lynx at all.
Its 5 a. m. I have been up all night waiting until I can call our
admin because either we have a security risk, or the same person
tampering with lynx has also changed the browser associated with
email accounts, meaning I am not going to get any work done today either.
Do not ever even hint that I am unwilling to help myself. tampering
with config files that are provided by shared hosting services like
this ought to be a crime.
dreamhost does not even understand how lynx works at all, I provided
them with a trace file showing how I cannot reach our work control
panel, and even though they duplicated the problem they could, or
would not fix the issue.
Its one reason why I happily pay so much for shellworld, I can get my
work done, at least when no one is damaging the services here.
Karen
On Sun, 14 Nov 2021, Travis Siegel wrote:
You can easily create your own lynx.cfg file, put it in your home
directory, then start lynx with a -cfg=<filename> command line
parameter, and poof, you have full control over your lynx
configuration, no need to depend on the system wide one at all.
On 11/14/2021 2:29 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote:
Russell,
Because my access to lynx is tied to a service, I do not edit their
lynx.cfg files.
In fact, I do not even know where they are kept.
Karen
On Sun, 14 Nov 2021, russellb...@gmail.com wrote:
> > Quoth Karen Lewellen: 'the shellworld setup for lynx, there is
> an associated editor. One that allows me, at least if the command
> "use control x e for editor" is spoken by lynx when I am on a field.
> If it is a single line, I cannot employ my editor. Meaning I cannot
> use control r and bring a file into the edit line. I would have to
> type it manually.'
> You can edit $HOME/.lynxrc directly
> > useragent=Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1;
rv:1.9.2) > Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6 l_y_n_x
> > is mine.
> > russell bell
> > >
