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Date:      Mon, 11 Oct 2004 19:08:45 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
To:        jmarquez@telenetwork.com
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: startx xauth errors
Message-ID:  <20041011190745.S34886@carver.gumbysoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <60085.70.112.63.168.1097242072.squirrel@webmail.telenetwork.com>
References:  <60085.70.112.63.168.1097242072.squirrel@webmail.telenetwork.com>

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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



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