$BROWSER

[Justin W]

Michael Klinosky wrote:
> Todd:
>> Out of curiosity, what app is it?
>
> BOINC  (a distributed processing system).
>
> I crunch on SETI, mostly - I love space stuff!
>
>>> I tried
>>> export BROWSER=Firefox
>>> and
>>> export BROWSER="Firefox %u"
>>> Neither work.
>>
>> Case-sensitivity may be the problem.  Firefox is not the same as
>> firefox.  You may also need to provide a full path, depending on what
>> the app that's using $BROWSER has set its PATH to.
>
> OK. Well, I changed it - still not working. Perhaps an error message 
> will help determine the problem:
>
> [mpk at d500 .BOINC]$ which firefox
> /usr/local/bin/firefox
> [mpk at d500 .BOINC]$ export BROWSER="/usr/local/bin/firefox %u"

Did you shutdown the application and restart it from this shell after 
this line?  The new $BROWSER will only take effect within this shell 
after that point, and judging by the output, you didn't do that.


> (test function in app)
> [mpk at d500 .BOINC]$ execvp(Firefox, http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/) 
> failed with error 2!
>
> [mpk at d500 .BOINC]$ export BROWSER=/usr/local/bin/firefox
> (test function in app)
> [mpk at d500 .BOINC]$ execvp(Firefox, http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/) 
> failed with error 2!

Justin W