Re: [gentoo-dev] Minor nitpicks

Collins Richey wrote:
>
> On Sat, 12 May 2001 11:06:02 -0600 Collins Richey <erichey2@××××.com>
> wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 12 May 2001 17:57:14 +0200 AGottinger@××××××××.de (Achim
> > Gottinger)
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Collins Richey wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Just some minor nitpicks.
> > > >
> > > > 1. hostname always returns (none) on my system.  How to fix?
> > > >
> > > yeah, I had the same problem here, it worked after remerging
> > > sys-apps/net-tools. I found a problem in the yp-tools package, it
> > > installed ypdomainname,nisdomainname and domainname.
> > > All those files still existed and where hardlinks to hostname
> > > coming from net-tools. I fixed yp-tools today. But also I found
> > > another hostname binary in /usr/bin. remove that binary
> > > (/usr/bin/hostname) manually please
> >
> > I rm'd it, but still no hostname.
> >
> > > > 2. The PS1 prompt works if I login from console, but in an x
> > > > terminal window it doesn't (just bash2.04 displayed at the
> > > > prompt).  How to fix?
> > > Change the #!/bin/sh line to #!/bin/sh --login
> > > in the windomanager wrappers in /usr/X11R6/bin/wm/.
> >
> > I did this, but still no pormpt in terminal under xfce
> >
> > > For  KDE edit /opt/kde2.1/bin/startkde.
> > >
> >
> > Also done, but haven't tried it yet.
> >
>
> Also did startx and startxfce.  None of these --login changes has any
> effect.

Yeah it only works for kde.

I don't think you must reinstall, we fixed all permission problems. The
ones left are outstanding bugs in the
distro.
I dunno what I did beside the --login thing to get my prompt on all the
wm's yesterday. I will find a fix in the next days.
Did remerging net-tools and removing /usr/bin/hostname solve your
hostname problem?

bye achim~

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