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

Dean Fujioka surfdean at hawaii.rr.com
Wed Mar 27 10:12:21 PST 2002


Let's try this again. Sorry for the long delay, but i was reading a hundred
twenty something emails from this list...

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ray Strode" <halfline at hawaii.rr.com>
To: <luau at videl.ics.hawaii.edu>
Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 7:47 PM
Subject: Re: [luau] Re: Gnome doesn't load at bootup


> >
> >
> >>>>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.
> >
> That was what it was supposed to do :-).   The idea is it should run
> everytime the file is sourced.
> if your /etc/sysconfig/network file doesn't have HOSTNAME= (or if it has
> HOSTNAME="" or HOSTNAME="localhost") anywhere in it, then the redhat
> scripts should automatically produce a hostname based on a reverse
> lookup of your ip.  For some reason, your system doesn't do that, so
> that line was to manaully make it do it.

I do have the HOSTNAME=localhost.localdomain, but this line added a new line
to the /etc/sysconfig/network file like this
HOSTNAME=sdjf9w28435y3r09uwef.hawaii.rr.com
(P.S. I guess I did not know what backticks are per your earlier message,
but I've figured it out now. 8)

>
> >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?
> >
> More than likely you forgot a closing quote or something.
>

yep, I used single quotes instead of backticks

but now, when I start gnome, I get cursor only, and no hard disk activity.
I do a ctrl-alt-F1 to see what the console says  and its something like
cannot authorize..
I'd like to post that here, but don't know how to gather that info from that
console other than writing it down.

thanks again for your help Ray,
dean




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