> On Fri Oct 29 1999 at 10:12, John Summerfield wrote:
>
> > > Does anyone know what the purpose of obtaining $BROWSER is for in
> > > /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc? Its always been there as long as I've used redha
> t
> > > (3.0.3) and I figure that its just never been removed.
> >
> > It can ahve several values according to what is actually installed; if
> > netscape's present, it points to that. I think it can also point to mosaic
> > or lynx.
>
> Yeah sure, but that begs the question... what is it actually *used*
> for?
>
> I have never seen any point in worrying about it myself, since I've
> never seen it actually used anywhere. Unless I've missed something
> somewhere (but unlikely, as I've been crawling around redhat systems
> for 2 years now, since rh4.2).
>
> As suggested, it's probably an obselete legacy feature that needs
> removing.
It's used in the m4 macros connected with Anotherlevel; whether it's used
later, I can't say, but the odds are thae someone uses it and will be
offended if it's removed.
I'm more bothered by the environment variables that are left set by gdm
etc in RHL 6.x. There are several left set that probably shouldn't be; I
could probably give good reasons if I had a better understanding of the
gentle art of system cracking.
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