Hi, I'm a newbie; I attended the slug meeting last night (28th June) and someone gave a talk re gnome 2.0 -- i'm sorry his name slipped by me. I told him about this error msg i keep getting when i startx (gnome) and he advised to post to here & he would advise what to do.
Error msg: "Coul;d not look up internet address for C5023568.optushome.com.au [ie my computer] This will prevent GNOME from operating correctly. It may be possible to correct the problem to the file /etc/hosts." 1 -- I would prefer NOT to have my OS require me to be connected to inet at startup, i would rather just connect when i need to and stay disconnected the rest of the time (esp when writing essays etc) hence i am wary of following above advice. (don't have anti virus software for linux, and if it interferes with operation as much as it seem,s to under windows, i'd rather try to stay away from it anyway....) 2 -- (I have cable inet connection via ethernet card) optus@home my isp dynamically assigns my ip address, -- winipcfg showed lease as 12 hours when i looked, but i think it might auto expire at a set time too maybe midnight ? point is, if i can figure how to add dhcpcd to startup script, would that also require me to be online (or at least have the cable modem powered up) when starting ? Or since it is a daemon, would it autodetect when i turn modem on &/or run mozilla/galeon and run dhcpcd then ? regards peter bj -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
