From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 16 15:19:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA01010 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 16 Jul 1998 15:19:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA00971 for ; Thu, 16 Jul 1998 15:19:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA15879; Thu, 16 Jul 1998 15:18:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 15:18:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: davidr cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: xlock not working In-Reply-To: <199807161434.PAA07052@sucs.swan.ac.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message