Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2003 12:10:50 +0100 From: Jez Hancock <jez.hancock@munk.nu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: setting hostname... Message-ID: <20030614111050.GB50426@users.munk.nu> In-Reply-To: <200306141034.h5EAYox18770@d1o1025.telia.com> References: <200306141034.h5EAYox18770@d1o1025.telia.com>
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On Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 12:34:50PM +0200, Fredrik Carl?n wrote: > When X starts, though, it complains that - and I quote - > "Can't get own host name. Your system is severely misconfigured". Where exactly does it complain out of interest? > > Now where does this little gem stem from? I've even used profanity, > but nothing seems to work... :) > # hostname > al-khwarizmi.intra.arrhythmetic.net > > # echo $HOSTNAME > al-khwarizmi.intra.arrhythmetic.net > > # uname -a > FreeBSD al-khwarizmi.intra.arrhythmetic.net 5.0-RELEASE FreeBSD > 5.0-RELEASE #0: Thu Jan 16 22:16:53 GMT 2003 > root@hollin.btc.adaptec.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 Does sound like an issue with X after the above. One minor thing and probably irrelevant if you've rebooted, but have you tried flushing your DNS cache (if you're running one)?
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