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From: Sam Clippinger <samc at silence.org>
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Subject: Re: kclug - Re: Non-root user cannot use net (WAS: mouse support in
To: kclug at kclug.org
In-Reply-To: <37DA9282.942D306D at discoverynet.com> from "Maurice L. Entwistle" at Sep 11, 1999 
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When last we left our heroes, Maurice L. Entwistle had just said:
> <!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en">

This is a ticky-tack complaint, but I don't suppose you could convince your
emailer to send plain text?  It'd make your messages much easier to read.

> <p>I can connect with my ISP, discoverynet.com with kppp both as root and
> as myself, maurice. However, I cannot open Netscape as maurice, only as
> root. When I go to logout, a Netscape message says, maybe you have a $SOCKS_NS
> lock. I can go in and delete the lock file, but it always re-appears.

Is the Netscape message in a console window, or does it come up in a message
box of its own?  The difference is that Netscape may not have permission with
the X server to open a window.  If Netscape can't open a window at all, error
message or otherwise, you might try disabling access control to your X server.
To do this, you can open an xterm and type:
        xhost -
It should say then that access control has been disabled.

If Netscape can open an error window but won't otherwise start up, the only
other thing I can think of is the SOCKS_HOST setting in the Netscape
preferences window.  You might try opening "~maurice/.netscape/preferences"
in a text editor and making sure that the SOCKS_HOST line doesn't list a
host.  If it does and you really need one, make sure that it is setup
correctly before leaving the setting in place.

If neither of those are the case, then I'm afraid I have no other ideas,
sorry. :)

                                -sam

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=============randomly selected quote===no relevance to the above=============
"For a million years the race has gone on monotonously propagating itself 
and monotonously reperforming this dull nonsense - to what end?  No 
wisdom can guess!  Who gets a profit out of it?  Nobody but a parcel of 
usurping little monarchs and nobilities who dispise you; would feel 
defiled if you touched them; would shut the door in your face if you 
proposed to call; who you slave for, fight for, die for, and are not 
ashamed of it, but proud; whose existence is a perpetual insult to you 
and you are afraid to resent it; who are mendicants supported by your 
alms, yet assume toward you the airs of benefactor toward beggar; who 
address you in the language of master to slave, and are answered in the 
language of slave to master; who are worshiped by you with your mouth, 
while in your heart - if you have one - you dispise yourselves for it.  
The first man was a hypocrite and a coward, qualities which have not yet 
failed in his line; it is the foundation upon which all civilizations 
have been built.  Drink to their perpetuation!  Drink to their 
augmentation!"
                                  - Mark Twain, "The Mysterious Stranger"