RE: Lynx startup file problem

RE: Lynx startup file problem

[eheil1]

Well what' I would do if possible is to modify the system wide lynx.cfg. That way the fix will benefit all users.

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Subject: Re: Lynx startup file problem

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Have you tried to override the default start URL in $HOME/.lynxrc?
This wouldn't solve the problem for you system-wide, but it might
prove enough to solve it on a per user basis for those accounts that
use lynx. Hth somewhat.

Greg


On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 07:15:25AM -0600, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
>
> This problem has been aggravating me for some time and i've searched  
> google with no luck, so I hope somebody has the answer.
>
> I can't start lynx without typing an url on the command line; it 
> complains that it can't find http://www.eauw.local. That url is nowhere 
> in my lynx.cfg and I can't find it as an environment variable. When I try 
> to change it in the lynx.cfg, it is ignored and I get the same error. Can 
> somebody tell me what to do about this please?!!! I'm running debian 
> unstable. For a while I couldn't even type lynx google but had to type 
> the whole url but somewhere along the line that at least seems to have 
> fixed itself.
>
> Tia.
>
>
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> Cheryl
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Re: Lynx startup file problem

[Gregory Nowak]

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On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 10:27:59PM -0500, eheil1@gmail.com wrote:
> Well what' I would do if possible is to modify the system wide lynx.cfg. That way the fix will benefit all users.

Ok, but Cheryl said this isn't possible, at least as far as she can
determine, and I made my suggestion taking that into account. Yes,
modifying lynx.cfg would of course be the ideal solution.

Greg


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RE: Lynx startup file problem

[Cheryl Homiak]

That's the whole point. Modifying the lynx.cfg appeared to have no effect.

But thanks for trying to help.



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RE: Lynx startup file problem SOLVED

[Cheryl Homiak]

First I looked at my .lynxrc and saw it currently had nothing for the 
startfile so I wondered where the startfile that was being unsucessfully 
attempted had come from. So I went into lynx and hit o for option and hit 
enter on the link for viewing the cfg file. The lynx.cfg was, as I had 
thought, /etc/lynx-cur/lynx.cfg. But I noticed there was a line that said 
include and had /etc/lynx-cur/local.cfg and under the information for the 
local.cfg was listed the startfile which had been unsuccessfully trying to 
load. so of course i immediately edited /etc/lynx-cur/local.cfg and 
changed the startfile there and that solved the problem. I don't know if 
this is a lynx adaptation or a debian adaptation; I suppose the idea is to 
make some changes without editing the main lynx.cfg file. I'll have to 
look through /etc/lynx-cur/local.cfg and see if anything else I tried to 
do in the lynx.cfg file is being overridden. Glad I discovered this.


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RE: Lynx startup file problem SOLVED

[Cheryl Homiak]

This is really interesting. The only entry in this lynx-cur/local.cfg file 
is the STARTFILE entry though I'm sure you could add others. So this file 
vasically amounts to a way to change your startfile or what other browsers 
would call your homepage without editing the main lynx.cfg file.


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Cheryl

"Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also."