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Date:      Thu, 16 Jul 1998 15:18:51 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        davidr <davidr@sucs.swan.ac.uk>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: xlock not working
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.00.9807161518270.21519-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199807161434.PAA07052@sucs.swan.ac.uk>

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On Thu, 16 Jul 1998, davidr wrote:

> I'm running X-windows/Afterstep on FreeBSD (2.2.6, if I remember
> rightly, which seems unlikely) and xlock, xscreensaver etc all
> refuse to lock the screen with the error: "cannot get hostbyname".

Does 

host `hostname` 

return anything?

If not, or it returns an error, put the system's name into /etc/hosts.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major


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