Re: Slow System

["Marco Shaw" <marco nbnet nb ca>]

>Once, after I closed Netscape, it told me there was a lock on
>it or something that would keep me from using the cache and
>a few other things, as if a copy was still running.


I've had that problem many times especially when I was running libc.5.3.x.
Now I'm running libc.5.4.44, and it seems to be running better.  When I got
the 'lock' file already exists, I would just delete the lock file, and then
Netscape would start OK.

A good way to see if something is 'amuck' is to do a 'ps aux|grep netscape'
to see if two copies are running.  If so try to 'kill -9 pid' it, but this
always leaves a lock file behind.

>"Unable to load Interpreter"
>
>Two reboots settled the problem. Any idea what caused it?


No.

>And if you're inclined, I've got one more I can't find
>the answer to. When I write mail from pine, the From: line
>comes out as:
>
>root ewolfe-involved com
>
>That obviously doesn't work. I read that I should create a user
>account that is the same as my email account name. I did that,
>but then when I go into X as "ewolfe" instead of as "root"
>then I can't activate the ppp connection. Only root has the
>authority to activate it from the Network Configuration tool,
>and when I try to use Usernet as "ewolfe," nothing happens at
>all. As root, I can dial either way.


You can log in as another user then 'su -' to go to root for dialing and
stuff, or install the 'sudo' rpm which allows you to specify that certain
things can be run by other users as if they were root.

Marco