Re: questions related to PPP and GNOME

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

>From what other people say, the hostname returned by the hostname command
is not valid when you break your ppp connection.  Probably try typing
"hostname phoenux.deco.com" or "hostname localhost" as root.  Just make
sure that it is possible to do both forward and reverse name lookups when
you are both connected and disconnected.

James.

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On Sun, 23 Aug 1998, Xun Cheng wrote:

> Could someone help me answer the following two questions?
> 1. How can I stop my redhat linux box from dialing 
> automatically while booting? I want to dial and establish
> PPP connection later at my request.
> 
> 2. I'm using gnome. While my ppp connection is up, gnome(panel
> and applets) works fine (I start gnome-session while PPP is up).
> But after I disconnect, gnome seems no longer work and
> any applets related changes will bring down the panel. How 
> can I fix this? Can I use gnome-session (or panel) no matter
> what my ppp connection state is? The following are my /etc/hosts
> while I'm online and offline. BTW, what will the dialer_applet do to
> connect and disconnect? Are they the same as what my boot procedure
> does?
> 
> ===offline
> 127.0.0.1       localhost               phoenux
> 10.0.0.1        phoenux.deco.com
> 
> ===online
> 127.0.0.1       localhost               phoenux
> 10.0.0.1        phoenux.deco.com
> 128.xxx.xxx.xxx xxx.xxx.xxx.edu
> ===
> 
> thanks
> xun
> 
> 
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