Chris, On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 02:53:03PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: > I've added a line to cygwin which should display the failing hostname > prior to displaying the winsock error. > > Could you retry with either the latest snapshot or the latest cvs? It > won't fix the problem but it might provide a clue.
Unfortunately, the clue isn't too helpful: 3118 204937 [main] ssmtp 11984 cygwin_gethostbyname: name localhost I WAG that this problem may have something to due with the setgid/setuid winsock problems that Pierre and I have seen (with exim) before. Unfortunately, the trick of giving the Winsock registry keys read access for Everyone did not work. :,( Jason -- PGP/GPG Key: http://www.tishler.net/jason/pubkey.asc or key servers Fingerprint: 7A73 1405 7F2B E669 C19D 8784 1AFD E4CC ECF4 8EF6 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/