From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Dec 12 10: 0:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cartman.private.techsupport.co.uk (cabletel1.cableol.net [194.168.3.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1845137B416 for ; Wed, 12 Dec 2001 10:00:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from ceri by cartman.private.techsupport.co.uk with local (Exim 3.31 #1) id 16EDYP-0004eA-00; Wed, 12 Dec 2001 17:52:25 +0000 Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 17:52:25 +0000 From: Ceri To: Joe & Fhe Barbish Cc: FBSD Questions Subject: Re: /etc/hosts file ? FBSD doc suck Message-ID: <20011212175225.A14728@cartman.private.techsupport.co.uk> References: <012e01c18278$cef45510$0a00000a@atkielski.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from barbish@a1poweruser.com on Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 12:16:10PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 12:16:10PM -0500, Joe & Fhe Barbish said: > Some of the man pages you all most have to have the authors > level of knowledge to understand what it means. Could you specify _exactly_ which part of the manpage you didn't understand? ###Begin excerpt from hosts.5 : The hosts file contains information regarding the known hosts on the net- work. For each host a single line should be present with the following information: Internet address official host name aliases Items are separated by any number of blanks and/or tab characters. A ``#'' indicates the beginning of a comment; characters up to the end of the line are not interpreted by routines which search the file. ###End excerpt Ceri -- "Ummm, excuse me. I think the network's down...?" "A communications disruption can only mean one thing... Invasion." --Lee Maguire, SDM To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message