Re: Weird EM86/Netscape bug

[Larry Zimmerman <laz walleye gonefishing sk ca>]

	From: "Gary A. Allen" <gallen@ironbark.arc.nasa.gov>
	my amazement quickly turned to disappointment when Netscape started respawning
	itself.  I was up to about 7 separate processes of Netscape with the system
	fully bogged when I commanded "killall netscape".
	
I think I had this same problem - related to netscape startup script.
I changed the script so that:
/usr/X11R6/bin/netscape is a symbolic link to:
/usr/X11R6/bin/netscape403 which has the following:
#!/bin/sh
#  check for lock file
if [ -f $HOME/.netscape/lock ]
then
  echo "A lock file $HOME/.netscape/lock exists"
  echo "If netscape is not running, Remove this file, then try again"
  exit 0
fi
export MOZILLA_NO_ASYNC_DNS=True
export MOZILLA_HOME="/w/local/communicator"
exec $MOZILLA_HOME/netscape -no-about-splash $*
exit 0

-- I think the problem was related to the lockfile stuff.
The real netscape x86 executable is in /w/local/communicator on my
system - most people have it in /usr/local or someplace like that.

Hope this helps.
Larry Z.