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[Ceri Davies]

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On 23 Apr 2005, at 03:02, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:

> On 2005-04-22 17:13, Sebastien Dorey <dorey.sebastien at free.fr> wrote:
>> When I use startx after login in text mode as root or whatever login
>> is everything is going great (I followed instruction from the doc of
>> freeBSD). If I launch xdm or KDM from text mode without changing
>> anything in a conf file , login and password widget show up. When I
>> login with the user password the screen is blinking and then come back
>> to login graphical screen. When I watched in the .xsession-error file
>> it was telling me that I could not log to X server :0.0 display not
>> allowed. I solved the problem just by adding in the file /etc/rc.conf
>> the hostname variable. This problem occurs to many people on the net
>> so my sugestion is not inocent. Well I was guessing: is that possible
>> to add in the doccumentation concerning X configuration for the first
>> and precisely in the XDM or KDM chapter an add on that say 'don't
>> forget to configure your localhost variable in /etc/rc.conf' otherwise
>> you won't be abble to log properly.
>
> Given that a lot of other things will probably break in nasty ways if a
> hostname is not set, do we really need to explicitly mark all these
> places?  If yes, then we should also state this in various other places
> too (i.e. in the "Email" and "Security" chapters).

That really depends on whether we intend the Handbook to be read as a 
whole or not.

I think that putting such warnings everywhere would make sense in an 
article or in the FAQ, but not in the Handbook.

Ceri
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