Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1999 01:16:49 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk> To: Ariel Burbaickij <Ariel.Burbaickij@mni.fh-giessen.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: troubles using cvsup Message-ID: <19991114011649.A740@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.10.9911130041450.18341-100000@sun33> References: <19991112204157.B638@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> <Pine.GSO.4.10.9911130041450.18341-100000@sun33>
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Ariel Burbaickij wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Nov 1999, Ben Smithurst wrote:
>
>> Ariel Burbaickij wrote:
>>
>>> Tried to run cvsup ports-supfile
>>> Got:Cannot get IP address of my own host - is its hostname correct?
>>> (my ISP use dynamic IP-adresses if it does care)
>>> Question:What should I do futher?
>>
>> This might work:
> But does not.
>>
>> # echo $(hostname) 127.0.0.1 >> /etc/hosts
Arrgh. That's probably because I was talking crap. The IP address goes
in the first column... (If you had done `man 5 hosts' you would have
seen this for yourself.) Find the line starting with 127.0.0.1 and add
your hostname to the end of it, e.g.
127.0.0.1 localhost Ariel.zhesitianka.de
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