Dear Bob Sorry for response delay, these days I've been out of office.
These are the outputs: grep hosts /etc/nsswitch.conf: hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns ldap grep localhost /etc/hosts: 127.0.0.1 localhost ::1 localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback getent hosts localhost: ::1 localhost ip6-localhost ip6-loopback Thanks for your help! Sincerely yours, Pablo Pascual 2015-04-16 2:03 GMT+02:00 Bob Proulx <[email protected]>: > Pablo Pascual wrote: > > Dear Maintainer, > > Note that I am not the maintainer but am another user trying to help. > > > I get this error (daily mail to root) when spamassassin tries to update > it: > > > > /etc/cron.daily/spamassassin: > > unresolvable name: localhost at /usr/bin/sa-update line 432. > > sa-update failed for unknown reasons > > Could you do some additional testing on your system? It would help to > understand the issue. What is the output of these commands? > > grep hosts /etc/nsswitch.conf > > grep localhost /etc/hosts > > getent hosts localhost > > Thanks, > Bob >

