In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jeffrey Fearn writ
es:
>Well that seems to have gotten rid of the errors :) I was starting X
>with 'startx' (as per the redhat installers guide) apparently this
>bypasses xauth! Might want to put that in the next version of the
>book boys :P
>
>Thanks Jon.
>
>Just for interest sake does anyone know how to get xauth to run
>without using xdm? it seems sily to run xdm on a single machine
>system. Nice pic tho' :)
>
>> I don't know much about it but I think the default if you run 'xdm' (the
>> gui login interface to xfree86) is to use xauth. You should have a man
>> page for xauth on your system (unless it didn't get installed). Other
>> than that I am not sure what else to tell you.
Oops! Sorry, I should have also mentioned for a permanent fix to edit
startx by changing:
serverargs=""
to
serverargs="-xauth $HOME/.Xauthority"
I haven't checked this so YMMV.
Bob
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