On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 12:05:24PM -0700, Clifford Snow wrote: > On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 14:41, Taylor, ForrestX wrote: > <snip> > > You forgot step 0: xhost +localhost. The X server is no longer able to > > send it's information to the original host name (since you changed it). > > Restart X (Ctrl+Alt+Backspace) and you should be able to start a > > browser. > > I made the suggested changes and it work. Thank you. To recap, I used > the following steps: > 1. xhost +newhostname > 2. changed the hostname in /etc/sysconfig/network > 3. changed the 127.0.0.1 entry in /etc/hosts to include the new host > name unless you are using dhcp this hosts file should contatin the ip and hostname fo you machine. > 4. restarted network services > 5. restarted X using Ctrl-Alt-Backspace > > Everything is working, however, when logging back into Gnome, I received > an error message stating that Gnome could not fine the oldhost name. > Once logged in everything seems to work. > > My question is, how do you update the hostname gnome stores? > > Also, is there a command that can be run to restart X? I've built a > script to change the hostname and would like to eliminate having the > user restart X. > > -- > Clifford Snow > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list -- ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University One Trinity Place. San Antonio, TX 78212-7200 telephone: (210)-999-7484 email:akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxx
