On Wed, 26 Feb 1997, Philippe Troin wrote:
>
> On Wed, 26 Feb 1997 15:13:58 +0100 Andreas Nowack ([EMAIL PROTECTED]
> achen.de) wrote:
>
> > lprm can't regonize that the user "spiegl" is a local user because of
> > a problem with your hostname in /etc/hostname and /etc/hosts.
> >
> > If /etc/hostname looks like
> > your_hostname
> >
> > then your /etc/hosts file should contain a line like this
> > <your ip number> your_hostname your_hostname.somewhere.com
> >
> > The order of the two names in /etc/hosts is very important.
>
> This is as simple as that !
> This should be put ASAP in the lpd documentation.
I agree! After a long time I found the solution somewhere in the
debian-bug-list.
> But doesn't it conflict with the requirement that the official name for a
> machine (ie FQDN) should be put first in /etc/hosts ?
I don't know. Another way is:
/etc/hostname:
your_hostname.somewhere.com
/etc/hosts:
<your ip number> your_hostname.somewhere.com your_hostname
The disadvantage (?) of this way is that then the login prompt will look like
your_hostname.somewhere.com login: _
Andreas
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