Re: [gentoo-user] Scripting Error?
Dane Elwell wrote: That file is /etc/issue. Dane, Many thanks for your response!! A quick look at /etc/issue in both the effected machine and one of the uneffected ones shows the following difference: Effected machine: This is \n. \O (\s \m \r) \t Uneffected machine: This is \n. \o (\s \m \r) \t Changing the "O" to "o" fixes the problem. Since I used the very latest livecd to do this particular install and since there are no differences whatsoever on either machine in their respective /etc/hostname files, I'm wondering if the latest materials are generating an error of this kind routinely. It's my sense that the developers ought to know about this matter. I'll report it as a bug and let them make the call as to whether it merits further attention. Anyway, thanks for helping to lend uniformity to my network. :-) John Lowell -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Scripting Error?
I've just successfully reinstalled using the latest livcd. Booting up, at the point of reaching runlevel3 and just before logging in I see: This is localhost2.nknown_domain (Linux i686 2.4.20-r7) 21:30:03 localhost2 is the name in I've placed /etc/hostname and there are localhost1, 3, and 4 on this network as well, but in those other cases I see: This is localhost1.(none) (Linux i686 2.4.20-r5) 21:30:03 Now I can understand the kernel version difference, r-5 and r-7, and I can even understand how the script might generate (none) in the one case and .nknown_domain in the other because I used the most recent livecd for localhost2. But what I can't understand is why I'm gettin what would appear to be a spelling error and should appear as "localhost2.unknown_domain" instead of "localhost2.nknown_domain". Can someone tell me what file generates this line just before login? The misspelling is annoying and clearly should be fixed. John Lowell -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] X Screen
Andrew Farmer wrote: I believe the black background is actually the result of an X patch - I'm not at my Gentoo machine right now, but I think the name is something like stupid-*-die-die-die.patch. Heh. That's why I happened to notice it. Well, as things turnout, Andrew, the initial black screen with an X with a white background can be implemented with, of all things, the startx command, i.e.: startx -- -br It never even occured to me that an answer might be found going in that direction but it works every time. Many thanks for having tried to be helpful. Best regards. John Lowell -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] X Screen
Andrew Farmer wrote: I believe the black background is actually the result of an X patch - I'm not at my Gentoo machine right now, but I think the name is something like stupid-*-die-die-die.patch. Heh. That's why I happened to notice it. Thanks for your reply, Andrew. Would it be too much to ask that you confirm that for me when you when you get to your Gentoo box? Thanks again. John Lowell -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
