> Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 10:35:58 -0500
> From: "Kirk R. Wythers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> I am getting the message:
>
> [kwythers@truffula plai]$ Get_local_host: 'localhost' IP address not
> available!
>
> when I try and print. This was all working only yesterday. So I'm not sure
> what I did... Does anyone know why the IP address is not available?
Sounds like you did something to /etc/hosts. Look in hosts, and
look at the localhost entry. It *MUST* look like
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
This is what is known as the loopback address, and a goodly number
of things depend on it.
mark, unemployed sysadmin & developer
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"GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY!" - Megaphone Mark Slackmeyer, Doonesbury
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