[plug] Cookies

[Leon Blackwell]

On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 01:29:09PM +0800, Bret Busby wrote:
> > Same for all versions: ~/.netscape/cookies
> 
> Had a look; couln't find it.

Note the '~' -- that should expand to your home directory.
Try:

cd ~/.netscape
cat cookies


> Did wehereis cookies - no path.
> Did whereis cookie - no path
> Did whereis cook* - no path
> Did whereis .netscape - no path
> Each of those as both a user, and, as root.
> Did whereis netscape, returned /usr/bin/netscape (executable), and
> /usr/lib/netscape.
> Did ls -al on the latter; did not see either .netscape, or, cookies.

whereis, locate and most of those tools all use a common database
that is pregenerated.  It does not, by default, scan /tmp or
home directories (since that would allow users to find the
contents of other users' directories and possibly do nasty things).



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