[UCLA-LUG] Tip: kill -HUP Netscape if it hangs

[Richard Wang]

Thanks.  You solve my problem.

Dan Kegel wrote:

> Netscape 4.6 on redhat 6.0 is much more stable
> than earlier versions, but it still hangs on me
> occasionally.  When I'm in the middle of writing
> a long message, this is a real pain.  Turns out
> there's a simple way to save the message.  The
> command
>    killall -HUP netscape-communicator
> will find all processes you own named 'netscape-communicator'
> and send them the hangup signal.  This unsticks Netscape,
> makes it prompt you to save your message, and then quit.
>
> Oh, and for anyone that's having the problem where netscape
> crashes as soon as you hit a Java page, the fix is to
> install the 100dpi fonts by mounting the RedHat cd, then
> typing
>   rpm -i /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS/XFree86-100dpi-fonts-3.3.3.1-49.i386.rpm
> or just
>   rpm -i /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS/*100dpi*
>
> - Dan
>
> --
> (The above is my opinion alone, and not that of my employer)
>
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