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Post Installation Tweaks

A few things you might need to do after completing the installation:

• Configure the network card as a DHCP client, by adding the line:

      ifconfig_ep0="DHCP"
  

  to /etc/rc.conf.
• Ensure host name is sent to the DNS server, by adding the line:

      send host-name "maroon";
  

  to the /etc/dhclient.conf file.
• Modify the .cshrc file to place the host and current directory in he terminal title bar, set a reasonable prompt, and automatically set the X server if logging in remotely:

     set echo_style = both
     if ($TERM == "xterm" || $TERM == "rxvt" || $TERM == "cygwin") then
         alias postcmd 'echo -n "\033]2;${USER}@${HOST}:$cwd\007"'
     endif
     set prompt = "[%n@%m:%~] "
     if ($?REMOTEHOST) then
         setenv DISPLAY ${REMOTEHOST}:0.0
     endif
  

• Ensure that your hostname is placed in the /etc/hosts file, against 127.0.0.1, otherwise you might find that xauth complains about the hostname when starting and shutting down X

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