From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 3 10: 1:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hecky.it.northwestern.edu (hecky.acns.nwu.edu [129.105.16.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2850837BAA3 for ; Sat, 3 Jun 2000 10:01:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from djkanter@nwu.edu) Received: (from mailnull@localhost) by hecky.it.northwestern.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA24057 for ; Sat, 3 Jun 2000 12:01:19 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain (coconut-6-028026.nuts.nwu.edu [165.124.28.26]) by hecky.acns.nwu.edu via smap (V2.0) id xma023752; Sat, 3 Jun 00 12:01:00 -0500 Received: (from david@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA14067 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 3 Jun 2000 11:09:05 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from david) Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2000 11:09:05 -0500 From: "David J. Kanter" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CVSup error Message-ID: <20000603110905.C6763@localhost.localdomain> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from justin@mail.syncom.com.tw on Sat, Jun 03, 2000 at 08:11:45PM +0800 X-Organization: Northwestern University X-Operating-System: FreeBSD localhost.localdomain 3.4-STABLE FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Jun 03, 2000 at 08:11:45PM +0800, justin wrote: > I try to run CVSup though, the program complains about not being able to > look up "my own host". ---end quoted text--- I had the same problem, and I fixed it. My computer's name is locahost.localdomain. So, make sure some vestige of this name appears in /etc/hosts. This is the only uncommented line in my /etc/hosts: 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain -- David Kanter djkanter@nwu.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message