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From: sane!genmri!doug@crdgw1.ge.com (Doug Becker)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look
Subject: Re: openwin forgets hostname
Message-ID: <z8vuzc4@openlook.Unify.Com>
Date: 3 Apr 91 18:01:42 GMT
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    Well that
    is just fine, but I've noticed that after a while the
    server forgets what the host is and tells me that it
    can't open the DISPLAY (:0.0).

What leads you to believe the server has "forgotten" the hostname?  Does
setting DISPLAY to `hostname`:0.0 alleviate the problem, as you implied in
your letter?
   
Symptoms like the ones you describe frequently occur when something or
someone clears /tmp, deleting the X socket; often this is done by a cron
job.  Could this be what's happening at your site?

-- 

Doug Becker
doug@nmri.ge.com
crdgw1!sane!doug