Re: Why oh why is Gnome eating my panel! (Frustration == MAX)

["Michael D. James" <docjava ricochet net>]

I should add the reason I found it necessary to use the ppp hostname
rather than use a dummy hostname is that certain network services
require the node to have a "legitimate" (accessible from the Internet)
hostname.

I don't remember specifically which ones didn't work before I did
this.  I think the sendmail daemon was refusing the stuff from
fetchmail, and telnet to certain paranoid hosts didn't work.  I think
ssh would need a verifiable hostname also.  To allow telnet/ftp access
from work, my script emails my new hostname to my work address.

OK, off topic... I'll shut up.

                           Michael

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> With the volume of messages on this list I missed the original problem
> (sorry) so I'm not sure my response is relevant.  
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> I made Gnome/Enlightenment work with my dynamic (Ricochet wireless
> modem) hostname by hacking the scripts to set my hostname to the one
> associated with my dynamic IP assignment at startup.  If the ppp
> interface doesn't come up before the window manager I just restart the
> window manager so it will pick up today's hostname.
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> The Red Hat 5.something scripts automatically set an uninitialized
> hostname when the ppp connection was established.  Red Hat explicitly
> disabled this in 6.0 for some reason.
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>			      Michael
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