From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 31 19:54: 4 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C216937B400 for ; Sat, 31 Aug 2002 19:54:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from serv1.wallnet.com (server1.wallnet.com [208.225.162.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 098B743E42 for ; Sat, 31 Aug 2002 19:54:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from timothyk@serv1.wallnet.com) Received: (from root@localhost) by serv1.wallnet.com (8.11.5/8.11.5) id g812rwH73032; Sat, 31 Aug 2002 22:53:58 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from timothyk@serv1.wallnet.com) Received: from localhost (timothyk@localhost) by serv1.wallnet.com (8.11.5/8.11.5av) with ESMTP id g812rvB73024; Sat, 31 Aug 2002 22:53:57 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from timothyk@serv1.wallnet.com) X-Authentication-Warning: serv1.wallnet.com: timothyk owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2002 22:53:57 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Kellers To: Joseph Cc: Subject: Re: Xauth automatically adds my dns server name In-Reply-To: <20020901014800.GA325@houston.rr.com> Message-ID: <20020831225116.W72215-100000@serv1.wallnet.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The same message appears here on an install I did last Monday from the 4.6.2 CD-ROM using either a FQDN or the default FreeBSD nameless amnesiac. I boot this box directly into kdm (the KDE flavor of xdm) and besides the error message I see no harm, no foul. The Xserver (and the Desktop) perform as expected. Tim Kellers CPE/NJIT On Sat, 31 Aug 2002, Joseph wrote: > Whenever i issue 'startx', the following messages appear: > > /- remove command > xauth: bad display name "__insertDNSserverhere__"in -{ - list command > \- add command > > I've read up on xauth contents, and i've issued the 'xauth list' command. My DNS server appeared to be listed here, and so, i used "xauth remove ****" But upon loading startx again, i was given the same error prompt. Now, my Xwindows works perfectly, and so this isn't a life-death situation, but it'd be > good if it wouldn't appear. > > Thanx in advance people :o) > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message