Finally! Someone with the same problem I've been having. I just figured it was a problem I'd caused, rather than a problem with the package...
No one has answered this one yet though. :-( On Fri, 18 Apr 1997, David Pfitzner wrote: > The problem: netscape seems to be refusing to use disk cache. > > Some details: > Debian 1.2 (based on Infomagic Dec'96, various upgrades) > netscape_3.01-4.deb used as installer for: > netscape-v301-export.x86-unknown-linux-elf.tar.gz > > It's configured (under options etc) to use disk cache; it creates the > directory ~/.netscape/cache if necessary, and the file index.db; > there _is_ free space on the disk ... > But no other files ever appear in the cache directory, and pages are not > cached between sessions. > > Things which didn't help: > - (re)moving ~/.netscape (ie to reset user-config); > - using different user (including root); > - purging and re-installing netscape package. > > I started getting paranoid and wondering if I ever had netscape > using disk cache, but backups from my previous Slackware install > (and netscape 3.0) _do_ show cache files. > So I tried the 3.0 netscape binary that I had used with Slackware > (from netscape-v30-export.x86-unknown-linux-elf.tar.gz) > and it still didn't use disk cache! > > Which suggests to me that there is something wrong with my setup which > netscape doesn't like (and which was ok under Slackware), rather than, > eg, a problem with the Debian netscape-installer. > > Any ideas? > > I'm using a modem, so it's rather annoying to wait to download files > which should already be on my hard drive... > > -- David Pfitzner > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
