From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 23 16: 7:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from roc-66-66-72-6.rochester.rr.com (roc-66-66-72-6.rochester.rr.com [66.66.72.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4019437B400 for ; Tue, 23 Apr 2002 16:07:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: by roc-66-66-72-6.rochester.rr.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 1093F901A00; Tue, 23 Apr 2002 19:07:26 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2002 19:07:26 -0400 From: mpd To: chip.wiegand@simrad.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hostname problem, apparently only in X Message-ID: <20020423190725.A18779@rochester.rr.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: ; from chip.wiegand@simrad.com on Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 03:53:54PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 03:53:54PM -0700, chip.wiegand@simrad.com wrote: > I seem to be seeing some new errors I haven't seen in other installs. This > time its in a > term window in X. When I try to run cvsup cvsupfile I get the following > message - > > Cannot get IP address of my own host - - is it's host name correct? > > I don't get this when I run from the console, only when in X. Maybe this > is related to a > problem with X itself? When I shutdown X the messages on the console show > - > > waiting for xserver to shut down > xauth: (argv):1: bad display name "cwiegand2:0" in "remove" command > > when I enter hostname at the console I get > cwiegand2 > > Any idea what I should do about this? Is that the *real* hostname (i.e. is cwiegand2 returned when you do an nslookup on your IP?) or just some name you gave it? > > -- > Chip Wiegand mike -- ___________________________________________________________ "GOOD DAY POKEY! YOU ARE RIGHT! ONLY PROPER GARDENING WILL MAKE YOUR GARDEN GROW!" - Mr. Nutty from "WHAT WILL MAKE YOUR GARDEN GROW" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message