From owner-freebsd-mobile Mon Nov 12 23:12:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (genesi.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA1E537B418 for ; Mon, 12 Nov 2001 23:12:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (root@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fAD7C8S68149; Tue, 13 Nov 2001 17:42:09 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20011112230955.B10133@drizzle.com> Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 17:42:06 +1030 (CST) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: James Hewitt Subject: Re: X and DHCP Cc: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, Alexey Koptsevich Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 13-Nov-2001 James Hewitt wrote: > Somehow I missed the words 'with dhclient' in your post... assuming > you don't >need< the hostname to change, you can specify your hostname > in /etc/rc.conf and in /etc/hosts as described below and it should > solve your X problem (specifying the hostname in /etc/rc.conf will > prevent dhclient from changing it). If you DO want to change your hostname you can do 'xhost +localhost' in your .xsession.. Kind of sucks from a security perspective though. --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message