On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, David Dawes wrote: > >folks, the problem i`m adressing to is the fact that xfree86 4.2.0 > >(as does 4.1.0 and 3.3.6) makes an assumption that hostname > >accepts the -f otopin, which isnt necessarily true, > >(infact in most cases its not).
> It only makes this assumption on Linux. Are there Linux platforms where > this isn't true? Well, Linux installs whose shell utilities were upgraded (quite silently I might add) from GNU source will have this problem. Marc. +----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ | Marc Aurele La France | work: 1-780-492-9310 | | Computing and Network Services | fax: 1-780-492-1729 | | 352 General Services Building | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | University of Alberta +-----------------------------------+ | Edmonton, Alberta | | | T6G 2H1 | Standard disclaimers apply | | CANADA | | +----------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ XFree86 Core Team member. ATI driver and X server internals. _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
