Re: [suse-axp] fighting netscape

From: Yuri Iliash (Yuri.Iliash@math.uni-augsburg.de)
Date: Mon Jan 29 2001 - 08:09:03 PST

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    Message-ID: <3A75959E.1B1DF18B@math.uni-augsburg.de>
    Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 17:09:03 +0100
    From: Yuri Iliash <Yuri.Iliash@math.uni-augsburg.de>
    Subject: Re: [suse-axp] fighting netscape
    

    Alexei Klimenko wrote:

    > I figured that the problem was due to the file .news-src (or
    > smth like this) of 0 size. After I deleted it Netscape
    > continue working pretty good. I've tried version from 4.7 up to
    > 4.76. Same story with all of them. Now every time I it gets
    > stalled at the very beginning I have to delete .news-.. file
    > an can keep on using Netscape. This is not critical, but
    > still does not look very right to me.

    Try to set in Preferences proper news server. It works for me.


    > After I solved (kind of) this problem, I discovered another one.
    > I can't send messages anywhere, although I can receive them.
    > I am getting an error message, smth like, that i did not
    > provide a username for the smpt server and, that i should go to preferences to fix it. The problem is in that I know perfectly well how to setup Netscape preferences and the username was there from the very beginning, but Netscape simply does not see it believe me or not.

    # touch /etc/sia/siainitgood

    But if you are using NIS, most probably netscape will not work at all after this.
    (perhaps sombody knows, if there is a solution to this problem?)

    Yuri






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