rrsum@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (Rick Summerhill) (03/19/91)
A short while ago I posted a note about X386 1.1 and a problem I was having with the server simply quiting. I figured out what was happening and thought I would summarize: The problem was that the server would die doing just simple things and that it would be inconsistent in running clients. In the process of dying, it would hang the console. I had also just installed TCP/IP. It turns out that there is a bug in the mail set-up script that configures mail for the TCP/IP package. I ran this script to find out what it did to sendmail.cf, the configuration file for sendmail, but I didn't realize that it also changes resolv.conf, the configuration file for name resolution. Even though you select the no nameserver option, the script puts a line in resolv.conf with a blank nameserver. It should make the second line read "nonameserver", but it leaves off the "no". This means that all name resolution was disrupted, including having the X server look for a reasonable name for the server for exterior clients. Changing this entry back fixed the problem. --Rick -- Rick Summerhill Internet: rrsum@hermzel.ksu.ksu.edu CTA, Cardwell Hall Bitnet: rrsum@ksuvm Kansas State University Phone: (913)532-6311 Manhattan, KS 66506 FAX: (913)532-5914