some questions

[Christopher Twigg]

You might for simplicity's sake try setting your hostname to
"localhost" so that X always tries to connect only using the
loopback.  Also, take a look at the DISPLAY variable in X and see what
it's set to and what that resolves to.

Christopher Twigg
cdtwigg at u.washington.edu

On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, Justin Huff wrote:

> Check /etc/hosts to make sure all the aliases for the machine are entered.
> If your machine was foo with 192.168.1.4 as the ip and bar.com as the
> domain:
> 
> 127.0.0.1    localhost
> 192.168.1.4    foo foo.bar.com
> 
> Another option is to put a packet sniffer on one of your other machines and
> see what is being sent.
> --Justin
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Graeme" <gwl at u.washington.edu>
> To: "UW Linux Group" <linux at u.washington.edu>
> Sent: Friday, April 14, 2000 9:36 AM
> Subject: some questions
> 
> 
> > I've got a small (3 machines) local lan going at home, with one modem
> > set up to dial out and do IP masqing when it gets requests at the
> > gateway.  When I boot up my Mandrake machine, it for some reason wants
> > to talk to the internet during the boot process, causing my modem to
> > dial out.  Specifically, the system logger, the INND system, and
> > something in startx try sending out packets.  SO the question is: why do
> > they do this, and is there a way to turn it off, for convenience?
> > Next question: When using just plain Enlightenment (that is, without
> > GNOME), when I start kfm or mc (I like graphical file browsers, sue me)
> > they put all my icons from my GNOME or KDE desktop up on my screen.
> > Then when I am done with the file manager, they don't go away/  Is there
> > a way to do this easily?
> > More questions: Is there a way to place the Enlightenment pager in the
> > GNOME taskbar (in place of the GNOME one already there)?  I haven'f
> > figured out how yet.
> > Thanks all!
> > --
> > - Graeme
> > "The result of this experiment was inconclusive,
> > so we had to use statistics."
> > gwl at u.washington.edu
> >
> 
>