Autostarting vncserver non-root (was RE: help)

[David W. Chapman Jr.]

Yeah, but most of the time vnc uses your hostname that it gets from uname
and tries to resolve it to an ip.
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From: "Jonathan Morton" <chromi "at" cyberspace.org>
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Sent: Friday, June 23, 2000 1:53 PM
Subject: RE: Autostarting vncserver non-root (was RE: help)


> >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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