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Date:      Wed, 08 Dec 2004 04:50:41 -0500
From:      Gerard Seibert <gerard-seibert@rcn.com>
To:        stheg olloydson <stheg_olloydson@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re[2]: "Bad Host Name" Error Message
Message-ID:  <20041208044742.90ED.GERARD-SEIBERT@rcn.com>
In-Reply-To: <20041208025953.82957.qmail@web53901.mail.yahoo.com>
References:  <20041208025953.82957.qmail@web53901.mail.yahoo.com>

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On Tuesday, December 07, 2004 9:59:53 PM stheg olloydson <stheg_olloydson@yahoo.com> wrote:

|>it was said:
|>
|>>I continually receive an error message about a bad host name. This is
|>the >error message:
|>>
|>>Starting cron
|>>Local package initialization: printerDec 7 21:20:44 BeerStud@rcn
|>>lpd[438]: Get_local_host: hostname 'BeerStud@rcn.com' bad
|>>2004-12-07-21:20:44.236 Get_local_host: hostname 'BeerStud@rcn.com'
|>bad
|>
|>Hello,
|>
|>"BeerStud@rcn.com" is an email address, not a host name. Replace it
|>something like "BeerStud.rcn.com" although you would be best using a
|>domain name you owned rather than someone else's domain.
|>
|>HTH,
|>
|>stheg


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Wednesday, December 08, 2004 4:47:42 AM

Sorry, but it did not make one iota of difference.

Thanks anyway!


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