Chris Tyler - Fedora Linux

 The manpages for aide and aide.conf

 The AIDE online manual: http://www.cs.tut.fi/~rammer/aide/manual.html

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Mary Eleanor wrote:

> When I change the hostname, I can't open

> new windows on the GUI display. Does anyone

> know what causes this?

It's due to the fact that the new hostname breaks the cross-reference to authorization information ("magic cookies") in the ~/.Xauthority file. Before you change the hostname, execute this command:

xhost +localhost

That will turn off authorization checking for GUI programs on the same computer as the display.