Hi, On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 12:50 PM, Russell Coker <russ...@coker.com.au> wrote: > I've just done a debootstrap install of Lenny, and /etc/hosts doesn't exist. > Where is /etc/hosts supposed to come from? I think it should have something > like the following (copied from an ancient Debian install). > > 127.0.0.1 localhost > > # The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts > ::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback > fe00::0 ip6-localnet > ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix > ff02::1 ip6-allnodes > ff02::2 ip6-allrouters > ff02::3 ip6-allhosts
For debootstrapped installs, it's not automatically created by anything. The recommended setup is almost the same as that, although as Neil said you still need to add a hostname on to the first line. See section D.3.4.4 of the installation manual. [1] [1] http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/apds03.html.en#id3124776 Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
