Re: CDE question

From: Martin Paul (map_at_par.univie.ac.at)
Date: 11/27/03 

Date: 27 Nov 2003 11:39:12 GMT

Guy Paulus <gpaulus@smc.ulb.ac.be> wrote:
> tx38 is an old alias name that has been replaced by smc38 in the /etc/hosts
> file of the server. The display should now be smc38:0.0 instead of tx38:0.0
> A fresh $HOME/.dt directory has been created, but still the errorlog shows
> tx38:0.0 as display. Is there something remaining somewhere on the server
> with the old display information that I have to get rid of ?

If the hostname of the machine was changed by just editing /etc/hosts,
this could be the culprit. The hostname is also listed in some
other files under /etc. Check the manpage for sys-unconfig (which
is the supported command to change the hostname) for a list of files
to be modified.

hth, mp. 

-- 
Systems Administrator | Institute for Software Science | Univ. of Vienna

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