From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 12 02:08:45 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79B3416A4CF for ; Tue, 12 Oct 2004 02:08:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: from carver.gumbysoft.com (carver.gumbysoft.com [66.220.23.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 682A143D1F for ; Tue, 12 Oct 2004 02:08:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dwhite@gumbysoft.com) Received: by carver.gumbysoft.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 5C66872DF4; Mon, 11 Oct 2004 19:08:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by carver.gumbysoft.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57F7072DCB; Mon, 11 Oct 2004 19:08:45 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 19:08:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: jmarquez@telenetwork.com In-Reply-To: <60085.70.112.63.168.1097242072.squirrel@webmail.telenetwork.com> Message-ID: <20041011190745.S34886@carver.gumbysoft.com> References: <60085.70.112.63.168.1097242072.squirrel@webmail.telenetwork.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: startx xauth errors X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 02:08:45 -0000 On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 jmarquez@telenetwork.com wrote: > When I execute startx, xauth gives me the following error twice in a row. > > xauth: (stdin):1: bad "add" command line Make sure your machine can resolve its own hostname. THere's a couple of name lookups in the xauth path and it'll spit this out if the lookup fails. Make sure the system's hostname is fully qualified and listed in /etc/hosts, DNS, or both :) -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.org