Resolving DNS / CDE problem

[Peter Roege]

Hi

Is about a system we got from us.
A B132L with hp-ux 11.0 pre installed.
But i getting the messaing in cde that the messaging sytem could not be startet.

I try to set sytem up to use its owen dns to resolving its own name. ( common way on windows2000 serv )
But is that the right ?

I have being looking at all the usual hosts files, and nslookup seams fine.
I have a external dns but because we donnt have internet ip ( domain name ) to use
could it not resolve on a locally name as: lan.local ?

I am very novice so i am in deep trouble.
So please be very specified.
Th Peter / SIEMENS denmark

[Steven E. Protter]

DNS is not needed to start X on hpux

You don't need networking unless you are connecting via the NIC.

For connection without network (no pc based x package)

vi /etc/profile

DISPLAY=ip_addy:0.0

example

DISPLAY=192.168.0.40
export DISPLAY

Then restart the system and it should boot into X.

for external x connections...

DISPLAY=$(who -m -u | awk '{print $8}')
export DISPLAY

This will enable external x windows to log in by directing display output to the workstation that has just logged in.

Lastly

make sure
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root sys 23 Jul 9 2003 S990dtlogin.rc -> /sbin/init.d/dtlogin.rc

in /sbin/rc3.d is pointing to a valid, working script in /sbin/init.d

You may need to verify the DISPLAY variable is set correctly in the dtlogin.rc file.

SEP