From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 13 17:58:11 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4667151DB for ; Sat, 13 Nov 1999 17:58:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.0.4] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.092 #1) id 11moHh-0003Cj-00; Sun, 14 Nov 1999 01:16:49 +0000 Received: (from ben) by strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.092 #1) id 11moHh-0000C7-00; Sun, 14 Nov 1999 01:16:49 +0000 Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1999 01:16:49 +0000 From: Ben Smithurst To: Ariel Burbaickij Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: troubles using cvsup Message-ID: <19991114011649.A740@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <19991112204157.B638@strontium.scientia.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- Ben Smithurst | PGP: 0x99392F7D ben@scientia.demon.co.uk | key available from keyservers and | ben+pgp@scientia.demon.co.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message