Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2010 17:23:36 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Antonio Olivares <olivares14031@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Custom 64bit FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE with XFCE packages released Message-ID: <20100808172336.6c4f39a3.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTik5h-KHhtBbNpc=4QNSNvPE5winmTFQqNUL_FNr@mail.gmail.com> References: <4C566252.6010605@otenet.gr> <4C5CFEE0.5060000@speakeasy.net> <AANLkTin1vfjfM98gmc2P5a-hZ78q_PDChyFTbGqTbJA_@mail.gmail.com> <201008071157.00180.eliaschr@cha.forthnet.gr> <AANLkTi=YoER4nBaq2noap_pFbhcLD8BLYbRxzBpcK5JP@mail.gmail.com> <20100807214737.75ebc397.freebsd@edvax.de> <AANLkTimFJkB0vaV0jwcVVuaeWG2Zq_UQ6shd%2B=O%2B3B28@mail.gmail.com> <20100808120816.b6b1f54a.freebsd@edvax.de> <AANLkTikkog54DgykfkFer4NqQJeVTwd4teOYqu8EB=Gc@mail.gmail.com> <20100808164133.2abae500.freebsd@edvax.de> <AANLkTik5h-KHhtBbNpc=4QNSNvPE5winmTFQqNUL_FNr@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sun, 8 Aug 2010 10:11:23 -0500, Antonio Olivares <olivares14031@gmail.com> wrote: > Polytropon, > > I have it almost working. The pam errors are not there anymore, but > the machine stays at the Password: > > prompt. That's strange. The user "praxis" in my working example has a password set, and the user will be asked for it when logging in interactively (e. g. on text mode console or via SSH); it WON'T ask for a password in the autologin setting. Meanwhile, I've changed the profile name "autologin" because of its double presence. It's now "praxis" (as the user's name) and still works, so this doesn't seem to be a problem. By the way, what's the $SHELL of the user you use for autologin? Maybe that's the reason - ~/.login belongs to the C shell, the default dialog shell, but if you use bash, for example, a different file is needed, MAYBE. I'm not a bash expert on this, as I'm using the C shell as primary dialog shell properly. :-) > But above it there is a line that says: > > 554 5.3.0 host "localhost" unknown > Aug 8 09:02:49 grullahighschool sm-mta[1090]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): > host "localhost" unknown > Starting cron. > ...... > > I had to add a localhost name and I added grullahighschool since I am > going to work there and I am getting this machine prepared for work. This again is a message from the system's MTA. Such messages are often related to missing data in /etc/hosts. Check your settings there, and "just for fun" check /etc/mail's scripts (e. g. "make all install"). > Otherwise, I would see the error message when starting xfce: > > Could not load up Internet address for . For "empty string" - something seems to be missing. > This will prevent XFce from operating correctly, > It may be possible to correct the problem by adding to the file > /etc/hosts on your system As I did guess. :-) Make sure the setting, for example, hostname="something.local" is in /etc/rc.conf and has a CORRESPONDING entry in /etc/hosts. > when it had no hostname :(, I can go back to the /etc/rc.local > solution, but would prefer to get this one working, the other has an > advantage that once I log out, I can shutdown immediately, but this > does not matter much. You can do this using the user's ~/.logout to contain "shutdown -p now", but that might be bad if X crashes. :-) Still, Xfce offers a menu entry to perform a shutdown. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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