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From: Richard Lucas <rlucas@solidcomputing.com>
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Subject: Re: cant cvsup--still
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On Sun, 15 Jul 2001, Karl Agee wrote:

> well I tried installing a fresh copy of cvsup-bin-16.1
> and even checking and changing mirror but alas I still
> cant cvsup..keep getting this error:
>
> su-2.03# cvsup stable-supfile
> Cannot get IP address of my own host -- is its
> hostname correct?
>
> so I dunno what do to next....
>
> --karl
>


What's your /etc/hosts file look like? You should have something like the
following in /etc/hosts:

127.0.0.1	<hostname>


With <hostname> being the hostname you set in rc.conf. If you have a
static ip address you might want to put that there instead of 127.0.0.1.


-Richard


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