Autostarting vncserver non-root (was RE: help)

Jonathan Morton chromi "at" cyberspace.org
Fri, 23 Jun 2000 20:01:00 +0000


>Found the problem -- and it was not related at all to your (good) script
>Brendon.
>I have found, that in order to get many things to work - I have to hard-code
>my system name/ip in /etc/hosts -> even though the ip is assigned with dhcp
>from my ISP. It just HAPPENS that at the time I was testing your script, my
>ISP cancelled the existing lease and issued a new IP address (it has been
>the same for roughly a year).

Isn't this what loopback 127.0.0.1 is for?

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from:     Jonathan "Chromatix" Morton
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