gnome stuff
Cyber Source
peter at thecybersource.com
Fri Apr 12 18:10:40 EDT 2002
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Who's the man Bob? You are buddy! Thanks!
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On Fri, 2002-04-12 at 14:49, Robert Meyer wrote:
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<PRE><FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>Give the machine a name that is not a network name and put the name in</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>/etc/hosts with the IP address 127.0.0.1. Anything that tries to connect to</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>the output of the 'hostname' command will work correctly. The file that you</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>want to change on Mandrake is '/etc/sysconfig/network' and you want to change</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>the 'HOSTNAME' parameter.</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>Cheers!</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>Bob Meyer</FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>--- Cyber Source <peter at thecybersource.com> wrote:</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> OK, does anyone know how/why/how to stop a gnome desktop when starting</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> up NOT to give me a warning message about (not being able to find an</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> internet address for "hostname", This will prevent GNOME from operating</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> correctly). This system only has a dial-up connection and I would like</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> NOT to have this message show up on boot. I have shut off services that</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> would require internet/network connections, etc. but no luck. Any one</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> else experience this before or know how to stop it? It doesn't happen in</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> KDE but I really like the themes that come with Gnome on Mandrake 8.2.</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> </FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> </FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>> </FONT></FONT></I>
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<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>=====</FONT></FONT></I>
<FONT COLOR="#737373"><FONT SIZE="3"><I>Bob Meyer</FONT></FONT></I>
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