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From: Radhika Sambamurti <radhika_narendran@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: hostname on /etc/hosts file
To: Gene Harris <geneh51@swbell.net>
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Of course I entered my specific "hostname" in the file.
My question is why does it not understand that my hostname
is also the localhost?

--- Gene Harris <geneh51@swbell.net> wrote:
> Have you entered your machine's name using hostname?  It
> needs to know who
> it is.
> 
> Gene
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Radhika Sambamurti" <radhika_narendran@yahoo.com>
> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
> Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 7:41 PM
> Subject: hostname on /etc/hosts file
> 
> 
> > My etc/host file has only the first line as "localhost"
> > without my hostname on the line. Every time I startx,
> Gnome
> > tells me that my hostname could not be found and that I
> > should put it in etc/hosts file.
> >
> > When I put it in the file, I kept getting mail...saying
> > "hostname" not found .
> >
> > Any idea of what I might try here or what is going on.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Radhika
> >
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