Brian K Servis writes: > >For those of you following this here is an update. > >It appears to be some sort of name lookup failure. I can't figure it >out. When I try and print with lpr it fails with the error given in >the subject. This turns out is just an indicator of something else. I >have a stand alone machine that I dial in to my isp and run slirp to >emulate ppp. So, I have given my machine a bogus name of >servis.snet. Before I upgraded to 1.3 I could ping, finger, telnet, >etc to servis.snet. Now nothing seems to be able to figure out what >servis.snet is. My conf files are: >
Well, it turns out that /etc/host.conf only had permissions 1 -rw------- 1 root root 20 Jun 6 16:52 /etc/host.conf and this was screwing everything up. I changed it to 1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20 Jun 6 16:52 /etc/host.conf and I am back to normal! Yipee! I don't know how it got changed, I don't remeber doing it by hand. It seemed to happed during the upgrade to 1.3 but I checked the base-files package and it doesn't set the permissions wrong. It is a mystery but a lesson as well. Take note. NONE of the docs, HOW-TO's, man pages seem to mention the permisions required of the conf files otherwise I would have found this long ago. Live and learn I guess. Brian -- Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://widget.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
