Maxwell,
Well, that wasn't quite it, but you got me thinking down the right path.
Along with the "You don't have Netscape installed" messages, i was also
getting "/dev/null permission denied" messages. So, i went to
/usr/bin/netscape, which is a script. And lo and behond, I found that this
script writes to /dev/null, which, in turn, i found out only the root user
had write permission to. So i added the necessary permissions to /dev/null
with chmod, and got Netscape to work... thanks to you. (I'm only wondering
why /dev/null would have had restricted write permissions in the first place.)
Sorry for filling you in on all the gory details. It's just one of those
early newbie experiences when you finally manage to actually fix something
on your own. All of the Linux reading i'm doing is starting to pay off, i
guess. Thanks again.
Leston
>What about read permissions for /usr and /usr/bin? I've had a couple of
>things fail when such things weren't set properly, though the execution
>SHOULD work anyway.
>
>Next, how was the program installed? If via rpm or the install script, it
>should be set up Okay. If manually, perchance you missed a file or so.
At 10:31 PM 6/6/1998 -0500, you wrote:
>
>On 07-Jun-98 Leston Buell wrote:
>
>> When i log in as root i can open Netscape. When i login as another user,
>> i
>> can't. If i try to open netscape from the shell using
>>
>> /usr/bin/netscape
>>
>> i get error messages saying that i don't have Netscape installed. When i
>> asked about this problem before i was told:
>>
>> 1. to make sure that the user has the correct path, and that i
>> could make that path global in /etc/profile, and
>> 2. that the user has permission to execute.
>>
>> Well, the "netscape" file is readable and executable to all users, so i
>> don't think that's the problem. And, as far as i can tell, the non-root
>> user has /usr/bin in the path for all of the relevant files i could think
>> of (/etc/profile, /home/username/Xrootenv.0, etc.). The
>> /home/username/Xrootenv.0 file even says:
>>
>> BROWSER=/usr/bin/netscape
>>
>> Could someone please fill in the details as to what exactly i should do?
>> I
>> think it's indeed a path problem, since i can't access certain other
>> applications as well when logged in as non-root, such as Midnight
>> Commander. I'd be most grateful!
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