Re: RH 7.2 and xdm

[John Bell <jwbell@charter.net>]

This took care of the problem in addition to setting a valid hostname.  Evidently the RH install scripts leave the hostname blank in /etc/sysconfiig/network and use a dynamic hostname (eq dhcppc1).  


Thanks for all the help.


John Bell

jwbell@charter.net

> Perhaps xdm wants to nslookup the ip address so that it can print "Welcome to <hostname> at the top of the screen".
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> Make sure there is an entry for localhost in /etc/hosts.  Make sure to put in an entry for your hostname in there pointing to 127.0.0.1 as well.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Bell [mailto:jwbell@charter.net]
> Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2002 2:04 PM
> To: silug-discuss@silug.org
> Subject: RH 7.2 and xdm
>
>
> Has anyone had trouble with xdm running properly on RH 7.2 when using DHCP.
> When the system boots a gui login screen never appears.  If I statically
> assign the address and hostname everything works fine.  Could somebody offer
> an explanation for this?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> John Bell
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