From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 6 6:37:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dire.bris.ac.uk (dire.bris.ac.uk [137.222.10.60]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E76337C279 for ; Thu, 6 Jul 2000 06:37:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk) Received: from mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk by dire.bris.ac.uk with SMTP-PRIV with ESMTP; Thu, 6 Jul 2000 14:37:22 +0100 Received: from localhost (cmjg@localhost) by mail.ilrt.bris.ac.uk (8.8.7/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA03923; Thu, 6 Jul 2000 14:37:21 +0100 (BST) Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2000 14:37:21 +0100 (BST) From: Jan Grant To: Joe Konecny Cc: FreeBSD List Subject: Re: ping localhost In-Reply-To: <39647E79.10FD783@green-mfg.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Joe Konecny wrote: > Newbie here again... If I can't "ping localhost" (assuming I > should be able to) what should I look at for the problem? What error messages are you receiving? Best guess is that ping isn't on your path..? -- jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ Tel +44(0)117 9287163 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 RFC822 jan.grant@bris.ac.uk Goedel would be proud - I'm both inconsistent _and_ incomplete. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message