Bug 54676 - hard coded /home/user/.netscape path?
Summary: hard coded /home/user/.netscape path?
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Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: netscape
Version: 7.1
Hardware: i686
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Bill Nottingham
QA Contact: David Lawrence
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-10-16 02:20 UTC by Need Real Name
Modified: 2014-03-17 02:23 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2001-10-17 14:32:27 UTC
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Description Need Real Name 2001-10-16 02:20:12 UTC
From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.3-12 i686)

Description of problem:
The .netscape subdirectory is searched for in /home/<user> even though
$HOME = /mnt/home/<user>.  Hence, the cache and bookmarks are found
on an nfs server but not on nfs clients which mount home directories.  This
was not the case with older versions of netscape.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
netscape-common-4.77-1


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  start netscape from nfs server - it correctly finds the .netscape
directory 
2.  start netscape from nfs client - there are, for example, no bookmarks
defined.
3.
	

Additional info:

Comment 1 Michael Schwendt 2001-10-17 14:32:23 UTC
Works for me with 4.77-1 and 4.78-* from Raw Hide. 

Both the /usr/bin/netscape wrapper script and the binaries access
$HOME/.netscape (and $HOME/nsmail).

$ rm -rf /tmp/testhome ; mkdir /tmp/testhome
$ export HOME=/tmp/testhome
$ netscape

creates everything in /tmp/testhome/.netscape and also notifies the user about
missing cache directories. All in the new $HOME.

Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 2002-01-25 06:08:48 UTC
This also works for me in testing here.


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