On Aug 12 09:11, Jason Tishler wrote:
> 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. :,(
What happens if you give everyone read access to
${WINDIR}/system32/drivers/etc/hosts
$ chmod o+r `cygpath -u $WINDIR`/system32/drivers/etc/hosts
?
Corinna
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