[luau] Re: Gnome doesn't load at bootup

Ray Strode halfline at hawaii.rr.com
Mon Mar 25 21:38:19 PST 2002


Dean Fujioka wrote:

>>>>hostname ""
>>>>
>>>>echo '/bin/ipcalc --silent --hostname $(/sbin/ifconfig eth0 | sed -n -e
>>>>"s/^.*addr://g" -n -e "s/ Bcast.*//p")' >> /etc/sysconfig/network
>>>>
>>>>/etc/init.d/network restart
>>>>
>
>>>hostname ""
>>>will set my host name to null
>>>
>
>this worked
>
>>Given an ip address, ipcalc can tell you the hostname name associated
>>with it.
>>It's output is of the form HOSTNAME="the.host.name"
>>
>I saw this on the screen.. something like
>213k5jhq9w8fgysahiodrfh8.hawaii.rr.com
>
>>>>echo '/bin/ipcalc --silent --hostname $(/sbin/ifconfig eth0 | sed -n -e
>>>>"s/^.*addr://g" -n -e "s/ Bcast.*//p")' >> /etc/sysconfig/network
>>>>
>
>this part, however seemed to send everything within the single quotes, i.e.
>/bin/ipcalc --silent --hostname $(/sbin/ifconfig eth0 | sed -n -e
>"s/^.*addr://g" -n -e "s/ Bcast.*//p")
>into the /etc/sysconfig/network file.
>i then tried typing it manually (before I just cut and pasted into an
>executable file and ran it) but it gave me a prompt like this   >
>Maybe I typed it in wrong?
>
>thanks for your help Ray, & sorry for the delayed responses
>
>dean
>
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