On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, Rene Rebe wrote: > > folks, the problem i`m adressing to is the fact that xfree86 4.2.0 > > (as does 4.1.0 and 3.3.6) makes an assumption that hostname > > accepts the -f otopin, which isnt necessarily true, > > (infact in most cases its not).
> > this leads to the hostname of the boxen being brutally forced to be -f > Which hostname doesn't deal with the option? I had this problem during > mirgation to gcc-3.0.x where gcc3 simply generated no vaild code and > so the very normal hostname did not understand any option ... Only the `hostname` from net-tools recognizes -f. The one from GNU's shell utilities doesn't. Marc. +----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | Marc Aurele La France | work: 1-780-492-9310 | | Computing and Network Services | fax: 1-780-492-1729 | | 352 General Services Building | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | University of Alberta +-----------------------------------+ | Edmonton, Alberta | | | T6G 2H1 | Standard disclaimers apply | | CANADA | | +----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ XFree86 Core Team member. ATI driver and X server internals. _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
