Hi Geoff On Fri, 7 Dec 2001 08:57:22 +0000, Geoff wrote:
My arrangements are simple but a little unusual in that I run VMware because I have no other choice than to use the Devil's Own OS for some stuff. I allow the virtual Win98 machine running within my linux box to access the outside world by masquerading, but the whole arrangement is of my own devising - the words Robinson and Heath spring to mind (though not necessarily in that order).
I am in similar position, though not all are MS. But that will cloud the issue at this stage.
Dampsquib shows F/s complaining about a whole lot of missing stuff, but I look upon its discomfort with a certain sadistic satifaction, because my only aim has been to get it to show its miserable face by running ip-up.local rather than procuring that it should work as advertised in any other respect.
It's only a machine, and as such is getting masochistic pleasure from its lack of sensation from your onslaught - but is only a machine - so it can't :)
Joking apart, I certainly do not see any of the symptoms you describe and I imagine that there must be some interaction between the SuSE firewall, F/s and netscape that is causing the problem (it does not take Donald Knuth to work that one out). Now that you know what is autoloading Netscape, I would personally be very tempted to see what effect it would have to stop that autoload from taking place. If, however, you actually need Netscape to autoload I understand that the intellectual satisfaction might not be worth the effort.
By a quirk of language, your question may contain your answer. Try the command <netscape & firestarter>. That should start Netscape as a background job and allow continue on to start F/s. That is on the assumption that what you see in YAST2 (I don't have it), is just a simple command line Yes
(or something that works the same way). I do, however, have one reservation, as follows. Netscape takes a while to complete loading. The command I have suggested may actually initialise F/s before Netscape has got its boots on, which may mean that the problem is not cured. We can cross that bridge (by using a more elaborate command), if and when we come to it.
Well 'netscape & firestarter' does work. They load in the correct order and function correctly. The drawback is that on re connection new copies of each are loaded again, they still work though. Presumably I need to create a batch file to load them with something of the sort 'if exist don't load'. Regards, David