Re: gnome startup and hostname

[Harry Putnam <reader newsguy com>]

jacob berkman <jacob ximian com> writes:

> On 16 Feb 2001 10:13:00 -0800, Harry Putnam wrote:
> > 
> > Running redhat 7.0 gnome/sawfish
> > gnome-core-1.2.1-33
> > sawfish-0.30.3-10
> > 
> > What is the reason that gnome needs a hostname to startx?
> > Can it be turned off without causing big problems?
> 
> some of the corba stuff needs it to work well.
> 
> if you put your hostname in /etc/hosts as an alias for localhost it will
> work:
> 
> 127.0.0.1        ulysses localhost

Ahhh cool .. thanks.  That eliminates the big pause