Posts by Rob

1) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : $BROWSER problem? (Message 57010) Posted 16 Nov 2008 by Rob Post: I've found a workaround, but it doesn't fix the main problem which is BOINC manager seeing my default browser as epiphany. I added a symbolic link named epiphany in /usr/bin pointing to firefox i.e. cd /usr/bin sudo ln -s /path/to/firefox epiphany Now clicking on web links in BOINC manager opens a tab in firefox to the correct page. Could this be a bug? (very doubtful)
2) Questions and Answers : Unix/Linux : $BROWSER problem? (Message 56949) Posted 15 Nov 2008 by Rob Post: Running 6.2.15 (downloaded and installed in home directory) on Ubuntu 8.10. Clicking on any internet connection (account, results etc.) gives error "execvp(epiphany, http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/home.php) failed with error 2!" Looking through the forums I found the suggestion to set my $BROWSER which I did in my .bashrc with export BROWSER=/path/to/firefox Logged out and back in, restarted boincmgr from a terminal but I still get the same error. I've never had epiphany on this system. Is there somewhere else I need to set my $BROWSER?