[OLUG] Bookmarks are magically updating

[Mike Hostetler]

Vincent - I did that and, yes, there were four running.  I went and kill the two runaways
(with a kill -9 to boot).  

Yeah, I think I did have a crash earlier today.  It seems to be okay now.

Thanks,

- mikeh

On Sat, Jan 22, 2000 at 08:23:01PM -0600, Vincent wrote:
> This has heppened to me before...
> 
> Check "ps -A" and see how many instances of "netscape-commun" are
> running.  There should only be two.  Could it be some weird behavior of
> a left-over process after Netscape has crashed?
> 
> Marc Davis wrote:
> > 
> > Well, this is hardly the words of wisdom category, but I can answer one
> > of your questions, FWIW:
> > 
> >         Yep.  It happens to me, too.  It's not constant by any means, happens
> > only occasionally, and seems to occur following some other of the
> > perpetual Netscape hissy fits.
> >         When it starts up, it's far more frequent than you are reporting --
> > more like every three to five minutes rather than 30.  It hacks me off.
> > It always goes away by logging out of my desktop (GNOME), and usually
> > (but not invariably) stops when I simply close and relaunch the
> > browser.  This is on Red Hat 6.1, October Gnome (with various updated
> > components), Communicator 4.7.
> >         The message I get is "bookmarks have changed on disk and are being
> > reloaded."
> > 
> > I can't wait for Mozilla or Opera or *something*.  M12 is encouraging .
> > . .
> > 
> > Marc
> > 
> > Mike Hostetler wrote:
> > >
> > > Today, something strange has been happening with my Netscape - I'll have it open and, once
> > > in while (perhaps once every 30 minutes) a window pops up and says that my bookmarks have
> > > been updated and have been re-read.  And it's true - the time changes on
> > > the .netscape/bookmarks.html file in my home directory.  But the size does not change. Again,
> > > this just started today.  Yes, I tried closing Netscape and starting it again - it does
> > > the same thing.
> > >
> > > Now, here are my questions:
> > >
> > > 1.) Has anyone else have this happen?
> > > 2.) Does anyone have an idea of how to stop this?
> > >
> > > At first I thought it was a cookie that is out of hand, but stopping and starting the browser
> > > should have stopped that, right??
> > >
> > > any words of wisdom would be appreciated.
> > >
> > > - mikeh
> 
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