From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 11 19:56:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DB5537B400 for ; Wed, 11 Sep 2002 19:56:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from russian-caravan.cloud9.net (russian-caravan.cloud9.net [168.100.1.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8DB943E42 for ; Wed, 11 Sep 2002 19:56:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com) Received: from earl-grey.cloud9.net (earl-grey.cloud9.net [168.100.1.1]) by russian-caravan.cloud9.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FB8328ECC for ; Wed, 11 Sep 2002 22:56:17 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 22:56:17 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Leftwich X-X-Sender: To: FreeBSD LIST Subject: xauth (round 2) Message-ID: <20020911225336.W38202-100000@earl-grey.cloud9.net> Organization: Video2Video Services - http://Www.Video2Video.Com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 When I startx I quickly see this error: xauth: (argv):1: bad display name "myhost-here.san.rr.com:0" in "list" command xauth: (argv):1: bad display name "myhost-here.san.rr.com:0" in "add" command The manpage for xauth says to either create a ~/.Xauthority file (my /etc/tty file has ttyv8 off and used to specify xdm) or to setenv the variable XAUTHORITY but the manpage doesn't discuss the format for this. Gnome further instructs me to add dhcp.myhost.etc.com to /etc/hosts! Ugh. Anyone? -- Peter Leftwich President & Founder Video2Video Services Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA +1-413-403-9555 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message