On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 01:59:39PM -0400, Yasir Malik wrote:
> Thank you for helping.
> I found out that the long beeping sound only comes when I use sh as my
> shell, but it does not come when I use bash as my primary shell.
> However when I redirect the output, in sh, when I do startx > shstartx
> 2>&1 and then exit X, the beeping sound does not come.
> All of these problems only come when I logged in as 'ymalik.'  I have
> attached the files that come when I redirect the output when I am using
> bash and when I am using sh.
> Thanks,
> Yasir
> xauth: (argv):1:  bad display name "yasirmalik:0" in "list" command
> xauth: (argv):1:  bad display name "yasirmalik:0" in "add" command

yasirmalik has to resolve to an IP pointing back to your host.
If you don't have (permamnent) network the best way is to have it as
an alias for localhost: in /etc/hosts add yasirmalik to the localhost line
127.0.0.1 localhost yasirmalik

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 24 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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