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Re: xdm Banner page

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (paul almquist)
Wed Nov 18 15:50:48 1998

Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 14:48:26 -0600
From: paul almquist <rhlist@almquipf.chippewa.tec.wi.us>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <01BE0EFA.4F377540@andromeda.atdesk.com>; from Tim Medlock on Fri, Nov 13, 1998 at 11:39:43AM -0500
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On Fri, Nov 13, 1998 at 11:39:43AM -0500, Tim Medlock wrote:
> My xdm login display doesn't display the hostname of the machine.  All the network apps and utils know the hostname and display it just fine.  I have tried to find the file where this login display gets the hostname, but no luck. 
> 
> Can someone point me in the right direction?
> 
> Thanks,
> Tim
/etc/X11/xdm/Xresources
the line is:
xlogin*greeting: CLIENTHOST

Good article on xdm in lastest issue (december) of linux journal

paul

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