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Re: Unidentified subject!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David R. McGown)
Mon Nov 25 13:57:42 1996
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 12:57:58 -0500 (EST)
From: "David R. McGown" <dmcgown@access.digex.net>
To: Chad Campbell <campbell@eecs.ukans.edu>
cc: RedHat <redhat-list@redhat.com>
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On Mon, 25 Nov 1996, Chad Campbell wrote:
Chad,
What is likely happening is your applications cannot find you localhost
address while the connection is up, or is using DNS lookup instead of
/etc/hosts lookup when trying to find the address of the local display.
Try setting the $DISPLAY variable in your .bash_profile
export DISPLAY="put_your_hostname_here":0
Next, check /etc/hosts, /etc/resolv.conf, /etc/host.conf, and
/etc/nsswitch.conf for problems. What you want to do it make sure that
name lookups
refer to /etc/hosts first, and then DNS. This means defining a search
order of "hosts, bind" in /etc/host.conf, and "files dns" in the hosts
entry of /etc/nsswitch.conf.
David
> OK, this one is really bugging me. I just installed 4.0, and when I run
> pppd, I can't start X (fvwm95). If I start X it just comes up with the
> blank grey screen and an X cursor. If I run X before starting ppp,
> everything works except I can't run certain programs while ppp is
> running. For example, I can't run Netscape or Midnight Commander while
> ppp is on. When I try to start these programs, nxterm drops one line
> and that's it. I can then type or hit ^C. When I deactivate the interface,
> everything will run again. I have installed all the errata updates, and
> other than that I have a complete default installation. My modem is a
> Hayes Accura 28.8. Any ideas?
>
dmcgown@access.digex.net David R. McGown
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