shaff@elements.rpal.com (Mike Shaff) (07/27/90)
ciao,
Someone pointed out to me via email (thank-you for not flaming via c.u.aux!)
that I should post a summary giving a solution to the stand-alone A/UX 2.0 w/
MacX when applications were launched locally. The error I was receiving was:
"Can not open display Dream:0.0" (where Dream is my machine)
Sometime later I stumbled onto a temporary solution. Set the environment
variable DISPLAY to localhost:0.0 with the instruction:
setenv DISPLAY localhost:0.0
I was at a loss as to what made the 'localhost' name special, but I awaited
some more knowledgeable person to post a long-term solution, before I tracted
down that question.
I received a batch of mail that carried a solution. The /etc/hosts file must
contain a valid entry for your machine name, further the address must be the
loop-back address. There seems to be two ways of doing this:
1. Add your machine name to the end of the line which is the loop-back entry
(find the line with the words loop and localhost).
2. Add a new entry with the proper information. The address should be the
same as the one found on the loop-back line.
Thanks again to all those who helped me and additionally thanks to the person
who pointed out that the net could benefit from my newly garnered information.
--
mas
It's either lunacy or lightnin'peters@apple.apple.com (Steve Peters) (07/31/90)
In article <SHAFF.90Jul26114031@neon.elements.rpal.com> shaff@elements.rpal.com (Mike Shaff) writes: > I should post a summary giving a solution to the stand-alone A/UX 2.0 w/ > MacX when applications were launched locally. > ... > The /etc/hosts file must > contain a valid entry for your machine name, further the address must be the > loop-back address. By "stand-alone A/UX 2.0" Mr. Shaff here refers to a system which has *no* Ethernet card installed. In this case his recommendation concerning /etc/hosts is correct. Steve Peters X Project Leader Apple Computer, Inc.