We have Mozilla 1.4a (and HP's latest mozilla offering) on our system.
How can we set up either of these so that naive first-time users can
have proxy settings etc appropriately set for them? For Netscape4 we
use a perl wrapper to give each user some standard initial settings,
but this seems hard to do with Mozilla.

In article <bina9f$mmd$1@pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk>, tpl@eng.cam.ac.uk (Tim Love) writes:
> We have Mozilla 1.4a (and HP's latest mozilla offering) on our system.
> How can we set up either of these so that naive first-time users can
> have proxy settings etc appropriately set for them? For Netscape4 we
> use a perl wrapper to give each user some standard initial settings,
> but this seems hard to do with Mozilla.

this is an unofficial response.

you can edit the files under /opt/mozilla/defaults/profile
since all of these are copied to a new user's profile the first
time they execute mozilla. if there isn't already a prefs.js
in there you can just create one and copy the proxy setting lines
from your own prefs.js file.
--
From the virtual mind of Allyn Fratkin allyn@sdd.hp.com
San Diego Site
Hewlett-Packard Company
http://www.fratkin.com/

allyn@sdd.hp.com (Allyn Fratkin) writes:

>In article <bina9f$mmd$1@pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk>, tpl@eng.cam.ac.uk (Tim Love) writes:
>> We have Mozilla 1.4a (and HP's latest mozilla offering) on our system.
>> How can we set up either of these so that naive first-time users can
>> have proxy settings etc appropriately set for them? For Netscape4 we
>> use a perl wrapper to give each user some standard initial settings,
>> but this seems hard to do with Mozilla.

>this is an unofficial response.

> ...
Thanks for the info. Things aren't yet working properly, but it's a start.

allyn@sdd.hp.com (Allyn Fratkin) writes:

>In article <bina9f$mmd$1@pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk>, tpl@eng.cam.ac.uk (Tim Love) writes:
>> We have Mozilla 1.4a (and HP's latest mozilla offering) on our system.
>> How can we set up either of these so that naive first-time users can
>> have proxy settings etc appropriately set for them? For Netscape4 we
>> use a perl wrapper to give each user some standard initial settings,
>> but this seems hard to do with Mozilla.

>this is an unofficial response.

>you can edit the files under /opt/mozilla/defaults/profile
>since all of these are copied to a new user's profile the first
>time they execute mozilla. if there isn't already a prefs.js
>in there you can just create one and copy the proxy setting lines
>from your own prefs.js file.
>--
I copied my prefs.js file there and removed all (and only) the entries that
mentioned my file-space. Running HP's mozilla, a new user ends up with an 8
line prefs.js (no proxy line) instead of the 277 line original.

> allyn@sdd.hp.com (Allyn Fratkin) writes:
> >this is an unofficial response.
>
> >you can edit the files under /opt/mozilla/defaults/profile
> >since all of these are copied to a new user's profile the first
> >time they execute mozilla. if there isn't already a prefs.js
> >in there you can just create one and copy the proxy setting lines
> >from your own prefs.js file.
> >--
In article <bj2c6p$8si$1@pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk>, tpl@eng.cam.ac.uk (Tim Love) writes:
> I copied my prefs.js file there and removed all (and only) the entries that
> mentioned my file-space. Running HP's mozilla, a new user ends up with an 8
> line prefs.js (no proxy line) instead of the 277 line original.

this is an unofficial response.

i should have been more specific but i wasn't sure since your system
in the uk might be different. my experience is with mozilla 1.3 from
mozilla.org, and on my system there is a US subdirectory under
/opt/mozilla/defaults/profile and i needed to make my changes there.
so look for a subdir under the profile directory.

--
From the virtual mind of Allyn Fratkin allyn@sdd.hp.com
San Diego Site
Hewlett-Packard Company
http://www.fratkin.com/

allyn@sdd.hp.com (Allyn Fratkin) writes:

>my experience is with mozilla 1.3 from
>mozilla.org, and on my system there is a US subdirectory under
>/opt/mozilla/defaults/profile and i needed to make my changes there.
>so look for a subdir under the profile directory.
Ah. Thanks. mozilla.org no longer seems to offer HP-UX binaries so
we're shifting to the HP offering (currently 1.4 I think). Having
glanced at the code I've hacked a solution to my problem but may well
adopt your approach instead.