From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 3 22:18: 7 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f21.law4.hotmail.com [216.33.149.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56AA237B425 for ; Wed, 3 Apr 2002 22:17:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Wed, 3 Apr 2002 22:17:48 -0800 Received: from 67.233.250.77 by lw4fd.law4.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Thu, 04 Apr 2002 06:17:48 GMT X-Originating-IP: [67.233.250.77] From: "Seamus Roche" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: seamusjr@hotmail.com Subject: MySQL hostname error when installing from ports Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2002 06:17:48 +0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 04 Apr 2002 06:17:48.0966 (UTC) FILETIME=[7190F460:01C1DBA0] 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 Hi, I am trying to install MySQL server 323.49 from the ports collection but I keep getting this error causing the installation to fail: >Sorry, the host 'papasmurf' could not be looked up. >Please configure the 'hostname' command to return a correct hostname. >If you want to solve this at a later stage, restart this script with >the --force option I have looked in the archives on FreeBSD-Questions and the MYSQL list as well as some other archives and see the same question but no answers. Thanks, Seamus _________________________________________________________________ Join the world’s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message