Why couldn't you just whip up a little Automator script to delete the
file for you and make that available to the users with instructions to
run it whenever they get that error message?
Unless I'm missing something about Firefox, that seems like the
easiest way to address the problem.
I suppose that if you really wanted to be sure it got deleted every
time the user logs in, you could set up a login hook to do it for you.
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Ed Davis
IT Specialist
Penn State Outreach
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On Jan 3, 2008, at 12:15 PM, David Mohs wrote:
Our school has 800 user accounts. Occasionally a user will
encounter the following dialog when launching Firefox...
"Close Firefox: A copy of Firefox is already open. Only one copy of
Firefox can be open at a time."
This is a documented issue at the following web site, and relates to
an invisible file ".parentlock" not being deleted when Firefox quits
(or unexpectedly quits). http://kb.MozillaZine.org/Profile_in_use
Does anyone care to share how they resolve this issue for students
in their school?
I wish there were an easy fix like holding down the OPTION key while
launching Firefox or something like that. Until we find an easier
solution, all the other techs in the school just forward a list of
affected students to me and I need to manually got into each home
directory, make the file visible, and delete it.
David
Workstations: Mac OS 10.4.11
Servers: home directories and managed preferences (including a list
of approved applications) via Mac OS Server 10.4.11, with account
information stored in Active Directory on Windows Server 2003.
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