On Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 02:14:09PM +0100, G. Kapetanios wrote: > > Following an earlier email concerning failure to look up a host adress > which also prevented xdm from running I have included my ISP nameserver > address in /etc/resolv.conf. Now xdm starts, I log in and the system waits > before starting the window manager for some time I still havent waited > long enough for the window manager to start as I close down the xserver. > The question I have is how do you set up xdm for a system not conneted to > the net and with loopback as the only network inteface. I still have my > kernel comiled with etherner support should IU recompile without ethernet > support ?
You shouldn't have to recompile the kernel. 1) Do a "route -n" and see if any routes are going through your Ethernet interface (especially the default route). "route del" these and comment out their lines in /etc/init.d/network. The only route that should exist when you're not actively on a network should be the loopback. This will ensure that applications get an immediate "network unreachable" error rather than a delay, if they try to access outside resources like a nameserver. (Ah, if only Win95 had a routing table...) 2) If you use ppp or diald, they should automatically be deleting their routes when they disconnect. (Except that diald keeps its metric-1 slip routes.) Pppd seems reliable in this regard but sometimes diald seems to leave bogus routes in, and I have to stop and restart it. 3) Look at /etc/nsswitch.conf. There should be a line "hosts: files dns". Make sure the "dns" is after "files", not before, or that will also cause a delay. I also have a "networks: files" line in there. 4) /etc/resolv.conf should have your ISP's nameserver, as you said. I don't use xdm much, so I don't know if there's anything in the xdm configuration that would need to be changed. Presumably it would be something in /etc/X11/xdm if so. > Any help will be greatly appreciated > George > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > George Kapetanios > Churchill College > Cambridge, CB3 0DS E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
