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Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 11:56:37 +0200 (CEST)
From: Micke Josefsson <mj@isy.liu.se>
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Subject: RE: cvsup "cannot get IP address of my own host" ??
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use ifconfig to find out your IP-adress, then  nslookup to find out its hostname
and then, finally, use the hostname(1)-command to set this hostname.

That should make it work.

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