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From: Collins Richey <erichey2@××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Minor nitpicks
Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 12:26:08
Message-Id: 20010512123414.0fd29fda.erichey2@home.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Minor nitpicks by Collins Richey
1 On Sat, 12 May 2001 11:06:02 -0600 Collins Richey <erichey2@××××.com>
2 wrote:
3
4 > On Sat, 12 May 2001 17:57:14 +0200 AGottinger@××××××××.de (Achim
5 > Gottinger)
6 > wrote:
7 >
8 > > Collins Richey wrote:
9 > > >
10 > > > Just some minor nitpicks.
11 > > >
12 > > > 1. hostname always returns (none) on my system. How to fix?
13 > > >
14 > > yeah, I had the same problem here, it worked after remerging
15 > > sys-apps/net-tools. I found a problem in the yp-tools package, it
16 > > installed ypdomainname,nisdomainname and domainname.
17 > > All those files still existed and where hardlinks to hostname
18 > > coming from net-tools. I fixed yp-tools today. But also I found
19 > > another hostname binary in /usr/bin. remove that binary
20 > > (/usr/bin/hostname) manually please
21 >
22 > I rm'd it, but still no hostname.
23 >
24 > > > 2. The PS1 prompt works if I login from console, but in an x
25 > > > terminal window it doesn't (just bash2.04 displayed at the
26 > > > prompt). How to fix?
27 > > Change the #!/bin/sh line to #!/bin/sh --login
28 > > in the windomanager wrappers in /usr/X11R6/bin/wm/.
29 >
30 > I did this, but still no pormpt in terminal under xfce
31 >
32 > > For KDE edit /opt/kde2.1/bin/startkde.
33 > >
34 >
35 > Also done, but haven't tried it yet.
36 >
37
38 Also did startx and startxfce. None of these --login changes has any
39 effect.
40
41 --
42 Collins Richey
43 Denver area
44 gentoo system

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Minor nitpicks AGottinger@t-online.de (Achim Gottinger)