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Date:      Tue, 13 Nov 2001 17:42:06 +1030 (CST)
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        James Hewitt <jgh@drizzle.com>
Cc:        mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, Alexey Koptsevich <kopts@astro.washington.edu>
Subject:   Re: X and DHCP
Message-ID:  <XFMail.20011113174206.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <20011112230955.B10133@drizzle.com>

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On 13-Nov-2001 James Hewitt wrote:
>  Somehow I missed the words 'with dhclient' in your post... assuming
>  you don't >need< the hostname to change, you can specify your hostname
>  in /etc/rc.conf and in /etc/hosts as described below and it should
>  solve your X problem (specifying the hostname in /etc/rc.conf will
>  prevent dhclient from changing it).

If you DO want to change your hostname you can do 'xhost +localhost' in your
.xsession..

Kind of sucks from a security perspective though.

---
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
"The nice thing about standards is that there
are so many of them to choose from."
  -- Andrew Tanenbaum

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