On Fri, 12 Feb 1999, Brad Salai wrote:

> Trying to set the DISPLAY enviorment variable on a sparc 1.3.3 box.
> If I say setenv DISPLAY sol:0.0 it doesn't work. (can't open display)
> If I use setenv DISPLAY 192.168.123.7:0.0 it works fine.
> in /etc/hosts, I have sol 192.168.123.7
> 
> Any ideas why this is?
> 

Shouldn't your /etc/hosts file contain "192.168.123.7 sol" instead of
"sol 192.168.123.7"? Also, are you running NIS, and if so, is your NIS
hosts map in sync with /etc/hosts? What about /etc/resolv.conf? Are you
trying to get information from a DNS server instead of /etc/hosts or NIS?

Brian

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