Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 22:28:35 -0500 (EST) From: Michael Alwan <mjalwan@rma.edu> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: cvsup can't get own host name Message-ID: <XFMail.971029224306.mjalwan@rma.edu>
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To all: I'm trying out cvsup again (since March), with the modula-3-lib-3.6.tgz and cvsup-15.1 packages. (Apparently I can't build the cvsup-15.2 port without a build directory for the modula port). I'm running up against the same problem as before. The command "cvsup standard-supfile" quits after 1 second with this message: "Cannot get IP address of my own host -- is its hostname correct?" Back in March, Doug White offered this advice: "make sure your hostname's IP address is defined in the DNS and/or in /etc/hosts." I'm not sure I understand--appended is my hosts file, which is set up per the instructions for user ppp, and my standard-supfile. I would welcome any suggestions, and I'm truly grateful for all the recent help I've gotten from this list. Hope I can contribute someday. Michael Alwan # $Id: hosts,v 1.8 1997/02/23 09:20:41 peter Exp $ # # Host Database # This file should contain the addresses and aliases # for local hosts that share this file. # In the presence of the domain name service or NIS, this file may # not be consulted at all; see /etc/host.conf for the resolution order. # # 127.0.0.1 localhost # # Imaginary network. 10.0.0.1 alwan.rma.edu alwan #10.0.0.3 myfriend.my.domain myfriend # # According to RFC 1918, you can use the following IP networks for # private nets which will never be connected to the Internet: # # 10.0.0.0 - 10.255.255.255 # 172.16.0.0 - 172.31.255.255 # 192.168.0.0 - 192.168.255.255 # # In case you want to be able to connect to the Internet, you need # real official assigned numbers. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE do not try # to invent your own network numbers but instead get one from your # network provider (if any) or from the Internet Registry (ftp to # rs.internic.net, directory `/templates'). # # $Id: standard-supfile,v 1.10 1997/05/19 17:22:52 jdp Exp $ # # This file contains all of the "CVSup collections" that make up the # FreeBSD-current source tree. # # CVSup (CVS Update Protocol) allows you to download the latest CVS # tree (or any branch of development therefrom) to your system easily # and efficiently (far more so than with sup, which CVSup is aimed # at replacing). If you're running CVSup interactively, and are # currently using an X display server, you should run CVSup as follows # to keep your CVS tree up-to-date: # # cvsup standard-supfile # # If not running X, or invoking cvsup from a non-interactive script, then # run it as follows: # # cvsup -g -L 2 standard-supfile # # You may wish to change some of the settings in this file to better # suit your system: # # host=cvsup.FreeBSD.org # This specifies the server host which will supply the # file updates. Please change this to one of the mirror # sites if possible. (See the "README" file.) You can # override this setting on the command line with cvsup's # "-h host" option. # # base=/usr # This specifies the root where CVSup will store information # about the collections you have transferred to your system. # A setting of "/usr" will generate this information in # /usr/sup. Even if you are CVSupping a large number of # collections, you will be hard pressed to generate more than # ~1MB of data in this directory. You can override the # "base" setting on the command line with cvsup's "-b base" # option. This directory must exist in order to run CVSup. # # prefix=/usr # This specifies where to place the requested files. A # setting of "/usr" will place all of the files requested # in "/usr/src" (e.g., "/usr/src/bin", "/usr/src/lib"). # The prefix directory must exist in order to run CVSup. # Defaults that apply to all the collections *default host=cvsup2.FreeBSD.org *default base=/usr *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs tag=. *default delete use-rel-suffix # If your network link is a T1 or faster, comment out the following line. *default compress ## Main Source Tree. # # The easiest way to get the main source tree is to use the "src-all" # mega-collection. It includes all of the individual "src-*" collections, # except "src-contrib-crypto", "src-eBones", and "src-secure". src-all # These are the individual collections that make up "src-all". If you # use these, be sure to comment out "src-all" above. #src-base #src-bin #src-contrib #src-etc #src-games #src-gnu #src-include #src-lib #src-libexec #src-release #src-sbin #src-share #src-sys #src-tools #src-usrbin #src-usrsbin ## Export-restricted collections. # # Only people in the USA and Canada may fetch these collections. If # you are not in the USA or Canada, please use the collections in the # "secure-supfile" instead. #src-contrib-crypto #src-eBones #src-secure ---------------------------------- E-Mail: Michael Alwan <mjalwan@rma.edu> Date: 29-Oct-97 Time: 22:28:35 This message was sent by XFMail ----------------------------------
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