Re: Difference between mozilla executables

Ben wrote:
> I'm a bit confused as to the number of mozilla executables I've found on 
> my FreeBSD system; 'which mozilla' tells me that it's in 
> /usr/X11R6/bin/mozilla (it's not a link) but the mozilla help page, 
> mozilla -h, tells me to use mozilla-bin, which resides in 
> /usr/X11R6/lib/mozilla, along with another binary called 'mozilla'. What 
> is the difference between all of these binaries; what is the purpose of 
> mozilla-bin and mozilla being there in the latter location?

You'll need to ask FreeBSD people to get a better answer.  They have 
apparently customized the startup scripts.  What I can say is that the 
two 'mozilla' executables are probably shell scripts and 'mozilla-bin' 
is the actual binary.  Don't execute mozilla-bin directly.

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