Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!decwrl!sgi!arc@thyme.wpd.sgi.com From: arc@thyme.wpd.sgi.com (Andrew Cherenson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi Subject: Re: Nameservices and graphics environment Message-ID: <66937@sgi.sgi.com> Date: 15 Aug 90 18:09:02 GMT References: Sender: arc@thyme.wpd.sgi.com Reply-To: arc@sgi.com (Andrew Cherenson) Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA Lines: 19 In article visti@cs.hut.fi (Hannu Visti) writes: >I have tried to turn on nameservices under IRIX 3.2 and 3.2.1. I don't >want to run named, so I only make resolv.conf defining domain, >hostresorder (local bind) and 3 nameservers. "hostresorder" is a new IRIX 3.3 'feature' -- it's not in 3.2. >This seems to work fine; all addresses are found and nslookup finds all >records for machines. > >But when I try to log in from the graphics console, it just hangs. It >clears screen and displays the standard ("welcome to ...") text in the >center of the screen. And nothing else. > >There is lots of messages in /usr/adm/SYSLOG from grcond. The errors occur >when running init.ps and there seems to be some problem finding the >localhost's name. Make sure "localhost" is in the named databases.