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Date:      Sat, 24 Jul 2004 21:02:25 -0500
From:      Jon Drews <jon.drews@gmail.com>
To:        Maksym Marchenko <marchenk@in.tum.de>
Cc:        "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: X: bad display name
Message-ID:  <8cb27cbf04072419021f62c74e@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <opsbnpivdvodrt25@mail.in.tum.de>
References:  <opsbnpivdvodrt25@mail.in.tum.de>

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Hello Maksym:

 You need to have the proper hostnames in /etc/hosts:
::1                     localhost localhost.covad.net notebook.covad.net
127.0.0.1          localhost localhost.covad.net notebook.covad.net

where notebook is my hostname.


On Sat, 24 Jul 2004 21:24:21 +0200, Maksym Marchenko <marchenk@in.tum.de> wrote:
> I'm installing FreeBSD. With XFree 86, and than at the end of X session
> I have always:
> 
> xauth: creating new authority file /root/.Xauthority
> xauth: (argv):1: bad display name ":0" in "remove" command
> xauth: (argv):1: bad display name ":0" in "remove" command
> 
> Something here isn't right. How (where) can I correct this problem.
> Can (must) I edit this .Xauthority file?
>



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