Re: [gentoo-dev] Minor nitpicks

[Collins Richey]

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.

> BTW: I made a package for sylpeed and configured qmail as my
> local mailserver. Receiving mail works no matter what settings
> I use in /etc/hosts for both the IP and the hostname. What mail
> server are you using?

I don't use qmail or procmail or sendmail; sylpheed is my pop3
mail retriever.  I doubt that this problem is anything you are
concerned with.  I'm on @home.com and they use 'mail' as the
retrieving and sending addresses.  I probably need to start using
their DNS server again.  Using the ip address is fine most of the
time, but occasionally they link 'mail' to a different ip address 
(doing maintenance, I presume).

-- 
Collins Richey
Denver area
gentoo system