X: bad display name

[Jon Drews]

Hello Maksym:

 You need to have the proper hostnames in /etc/hosts:
::1                     localhost localhost.covad.net notebook.covad.net
127.0.0.1          localhost localhost.covad.net notebook.covad.net

where notebook is my hostname.


On Sat, 24 Jul 2004 21:24:21 +0200, Maksym Marchenko <marchenk at in.tum.de> wrote:
> I'm installing FreeBSD. With XFree 86, and than at the end of X session
> I have always:
> 
> xauth: creating new authority file /root/.Xauthority
> xauth: (argv):1: bad display name ":0" in "remove" command
> xauth: (argv):1: bad display name ":0" in "remove" command
> 
> Something here isn't right. How (where) can I correct this problem.
> Can (must) I edit this .Xauthority file?
>