Subject: Re: DHCP and X problems
To: Yasir Malik <ymalik@cs.stevens-tech.edu>
From: Brian de Alwis <bsd@cs.ubc.ca>
List: port-i386
Date: 06/13/2003 12:54:53
This might be related to a changing hostname -- I meant to post about
this earlier.
I have a laptop with a wireless card. I'm assigned different
hostnames depending on location, and it can change when renewing the
lease. I found that many X apps would
fail as my hostname didn't match the hostname placed in my
.Xauthority.
The solution was to configure /etc/dhclient.conf to supercede my hostname
with something regular:
supersede host-name "slab";
`slab' is the regular hostname.
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Brian de Alwis | Graduate student | Software Practices Lab | UBC
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