Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 04:51:47 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> To: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com> Cc: jmarquez@telenetwork.com Subject: Re: startx xauth errors Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1041012045100.55701H-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <20041011190745.S34886@carver.gumbysoft.com>
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On Mon, 11 Oct 2004, Doug White wrote: > On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 jmarquez@telenetwork.com wrote: > > > When I execute startx, xauth gives me the following error twice in a row. > > > > xauth: (stdin):1: bad "add" command line > > Make sure your machine can resolve its own hostname. THere's a couple > of name lookups in the xauth path and it'll spit this out if the lookup > fails. Make sure the system's hostname is fully qualified and listed in > /etc/hosts, DNS, or both :) And/or use the neat trick of using 'localhost' as your hostname, which I believe Apple uses at times. Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects robert@fledge.watson.org Principal Research Scientist, McAfee Research
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