General Information:
Running Carbon & Regular Builds
Carbon builds and regular builds should both be able to run under Mac OS
Classic (8.6-9.2.2). As long as the Carbon Lib Extension exists in the Extensions
folder found under the System Folder, Carbon builds should work.
Mac OS X builds 4K46 and higher will have the appropriate
support for both through the Classic compatibility environment. Carbon builds
will run "natively" in OS X. Regular builds will require Mac OS 9.2.2 running
in Classic mode under OS X.
Activating the "root" User in OS X
These instructions are valid after an initial OS X install where no other "tweaks" have been made to the system.
- Double-click the hard drive.
- Navigate to the "Applications " folder and double-click.
- Find the "Utilities" sub folder and double-click it.
- Double-click the "NetInfo Manager ".
- After several delightful icon bounces, select the " Domain" menu and go to the "Security" sub menu then "Authenticate ".
- A dialog prompt asks for your user name/password.
- Select the "Domain" menu again, go to "Security " and select "Enable Root".
- Follow the prompts on the screen to enter and verify your root password.
- "root" is now enabled and can be su'd as in Unix throughout the Terminal application.
Download the binary from ftp.mozilla.org . Double click the stuffit (.sit) file. Stuffit Expander will run and may take a while to unstuff it all.
Enabling Crash Reporter in OS X *10.1*
- Open your hard drive
- Find 'Applications | Utilities | Console'. Open Console
- Do 'Console | Preferences'.
- Open the 'Crashes' tab.
- Click on the two checkboxes:
- 'Log crash information in ~/Library/Logs/
- Automatically display crash logs
*Super User mode is similar to root user and will allow a person to make
changes and modify certain files. To enable Super User mode in the Terminal
application,
please do the following:
- Type SU in Terminal
- Type the required password
In order to receive a stack trace report during a crash, you need to enable Crash reporter in your Hostconfig file:
1. Open Applications folder and double -click.
2. Locate Utilities folder and double-click.
3. Double-click on Teminal.app
4. In the Terminal window, type ' cd / '
5. After this is done, type ' cd private/etc/ '. Then,
type ' ls '.
6. You should see a file in the directory called "hostconfig'. This is
the file that is to be modified.
7. Type ' pico hostconfig '.
8. The contents of the hostconfig should be displayed in the window. Use
the down arrow key on keyboard to position I -beam at the bottom of list.
9. Type the following; ' CRASHREPORTER=-YES- '
10. Press Control- O to write changes to files; followed by the pressing
the Reurn key.
11. Press Control-X to exit Pico. Quit Terminal by pressing Command-Q and
restart computer
12. Now when a crash occurs, a dialog will appear asking to view to stack
trace. Clicking Yes will automatically open the report in the Console application.
Last Reviewed | : | 2001-08-14 |
Created on | : | 2001-02-28 |
Authors | : | Stephen Donner <
stephend@netscape.com > Chris Petersen <chrispetersen@netscape.com> |