Re: CDE question

From: Guy Paulus (gpaulus_at_smc.ulb.ac.be)
Date: 11/27/03

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    Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 12:58:00 +0100

    On Thu, 27 Nov 2003, Martin Paul wrote:

    > 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 tx38 is an old alias name that has been replaced by smc38 in the /etc/hosts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.

    tx38 was an alias for a remote host, not the solaris server. I don't
    see what sys-unconfig has to do with the DISPLAY value on the remote
    host. When the user logs into another server, where the /etc/hosts file
    is empty except for the loopback and the server itself, the DISPLAY
    value is correctly set to smc38:0.0, not tx38:0.0.
    Both servers use /etc/nsswitch.conf with "hosts: file dns"; the difference
    is that on the server complaining about the display, /etc/hosts contains
    an smc38 entry, while on the other the hostname is provided by the DNS. 

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