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Re: Diagnosing "helper app spawn" errors with Netscape 4
Ed Casas (edc@ee.ubc.ca)
Tue, 24 Mar 1998 13:52:47 -0800 (PST)
> What to do?
> - Get the very latest version of Netscape, and see whether the problem
> is still there.
> - Replace /bin/sh, which is a symlink to /bin/bash, with the binary of
> an older version of bash which does not implement the arithmetic
> command. (No need to deprive yourself of 2.00 the rest of the time.)
> - Replace /bin/sh with a script that checks for a -c option, and
> replaces any ((s in the option value with ( (
I fixed this problem by replacing /bin/sh with ash. It probably
starts faster and it's a good way to root out non-portable
constructs in shell scripts.
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Ed Casas / edc@ee.ubc.ca / http://www.ee.ubc.ca/~edc / +1 604 822-2592