Q: using gdm with dyanamic IP addresses

[Robert Laing <frontier frontiersoftware co za>]

Hi all

I've just switched from getting on the the net with a modem to 
operating from a small business hub which provides ethernet access. The 
access is like a dial-up connection in that it uses dhcp to assign 
temporary IP numbers. I set my box up to call dhclient as it boots up, 
and then hit a problem: gnome hangs when I log in using gdm. My 
/etc/hosts file just has

127.0.0.1 localhost Wildebeest

in it which gdm was happy with before I got a randomly assigned IP 
numbers before logging in. Since I don't know what the IP number will 
be until I run dhclient, I don't know what to put in /etc/hosts to 
satisfy gdm.

What I'm doing at the moment to work around this problem is entering 
dhclient after I've logged into gdm. But I'm sure there must be some 
way of getting the bootscripts to set the IP address and make gdm work

advTHANKSance

Robert