Re: Modern 2.6 kernels - Notification for changing hostname from proc/sys/kernel/hostname ?

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From: Jan Engelhardt

Subject: Re: Modern 2.6 kernels - Notification for changing hostname from proc/sys/kernel/hostname ?

Date: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 - 2:38 am

On Monday 2008-05-19 22:05, Shawn Starr wrote:
quoted text>>
>> Why does it want to know if and when hostname changes?
>>
>Well, It's for keeping track of the X session, if the hostname changes things 
>go bad.

Then these should be resolved. Sometimes, even setting just the time
with ntpdate makes X go blank for a few seconds, or even exit.

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Re: Modern 2.6 kernels - Notification for changing hostnam ..., Jan Engelhardt, (Wed May 21, 2:38 am)


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