Re: startx xauth errors

From: Doug White <dwhite_at_gumbysoft.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 19:08:45 -0700 (PDT)
On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 jmarquez_at_telenetwork.com wrote:

> When I execute startx, xauth gives me the following error twice in a row.
>
> xauth: (stdin):1:  bad "add" command line

Make sure your machine can resolve its own hostname.  THere's a couple of
name lookups in the xauth path and it'll spit this out if the lookup
fails.   Make sure the system's hostname is fully qualified and listed in
/etc/hosts, DNS, or both :)

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Received on Tue Oct 12 2004 - 00:08:45 UTC

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