Re: xauth - Sulution
Re: xauth - Sulution
- Subject: Re: xauth - Sulution
- From: Harald Hanche-Olsen <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 23:10:34 +0100 (CET)
+ "John Koren" <email@hidden>:
> I found the problem!
>
> In my /etc/hostconfig file I had the following line:
> HOSTNAME=my_computer_name
>
> It was a remnant from previous Mac OS Xs (probably Panther).
>
> I don't know why, but removing this line cleared the problem with xauth.
Hmm, curious. I have such a line in hostconfig too. I remember
putting it there under Panther because without it, whenever my laptop
moved to a different network the hostname would change, and all of a
sudden my X server would begin refusing connections. I've kept it
that way since, because I find it extremely annoying that the hostname
would change whenever I connect to a different network. (I run
scripts on login that are shared across a number of hosts, and parts
of those scripts check the hostname to figure out what to do.)
On a different note, I see that there is now a line in /etc/hostconfig
saying "# This file is going away". I sure hope there will be another
way to keep the hostname stable.
- Harald
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