Iain
thanks for this reply, I posted my response before I saw it. Before the
solution, the etc/hosts was empty, also I tried it unsuccessfully with a line
localhost.localdomain
As I mentioned I found a solution was to add a line
192.168.100.4 localhost.localdomain beta localhost
Greg
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On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 20:23, Greg Goldstein wrote:
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> I have done that (added the one line localhost.localdomain), however the
> above messages persist.
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Could you post your /etc/hosts file? Also the output from
`ls -al /etc/hosts` and `hostname`. This might help in determining the
I solved this problem. I noted that the Dim4600 connects to the
internet via a shared ADSL modem, and is connected to the modem via a hub. A
second PC called "localhost alpha" running RH7.2 that is connected to the
hub lists a previous PC (sold some time ago) called "localhost beta" in its
et
During the linux startup on my RH 8.0 Dell Dimension 4600, I see this
message "Localhost is bad" when lpd starts (however lpd still gets "OK").
When starting Gnome as root there is this message:
"Could not look up internet address for localhost.localdomain.
Thi
