Re: [gentoo-dev] Minor nitpicks

[Collins Richey <erichey2@home.com>]

On Sat, 12 May 2001 11:06:02 -0600 Collins Richey <erichey2@home.com>
wrote:

> On Sat, 12 May 2001 17:57:14 +0200 AGottinger@t-online.de (Achim
> Gottinger)
> wrote:
> 
> > Collins Richey wrote:
> > > 
> > > Just some minor nitpicks.
> > > 
> > > 1. hostname always returns (none) on my system.  How to fix?
> > > 
> > yeah, I had the same problem here, it worked after remerging
> > sys-apps/net-tools. I found a problem in the yp-tools package, it 
> > installed ypdomainname,nisdomainname and domainname.
> > All those files still existed and where hardlinks to hostname 
> > coming from net-tools. I fixed yp-tools today. But also I found 
> > another hostname binary in /usr/bin. remove that binary
> > (/usr/bin/hostname) manually please
> 
> I rm'd it, but still no hostname.
> 
> > > 2. The PS1 prompt works if I login from console, but in an x
> > > terminal window it doesn't (just bash2.04 displayed at the
> > > prompt).  How to fix?
> > Change the #!/bin/sh line to #!/bin/sh --login
> > in the windomanager wrappers in /usr/X11R6/bin/wm/.
> 
> I did this, but still no pormpt in terminal under xfce
> 
> > For  KDE edit /opt/kde2.1/bin/startkde.
> > 
> 
> Also done, but haven't tried it yet.
> 

Also did startx and startxfce.  None of these --login changes has any
effect.

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Collins Richey
Denver area
gentoo system