[ale] netscape default home

Wandered Inn esoteric at denali.atlnet.com
Wed Apr 7 18:15:00 EDT 1999


Nick Lucent wrote:
> 
> I recently ordered debian 2.1 cd's, and reinstalled, but since I
> reinstalled from cd (rather than ftp) netscape goes to www.debian.org when
> its opened. Ive changed home to slashdot, and it goes there when I click
> the home button, but it opens to debian none the less. Does anyone happen
> to know where debian set this up at, or what variable holds it? Ive tried
> grepping through /etc but couldnt find anything.
> 
> just a little annoyance, not terribly important, but thought I would ask

Chances are that your path is pointing to a script called netscape and
inside the script it's calling the real netscape and passing it the
debian url.  

file $(whence netscape)

will tell you if it's a script, if it is, check it out...

> Nick

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