From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 15 16:39:12 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA17205 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 15 Apr 1996 16:39:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.159]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA17193 for ; Mon, 15 Apr 1996 16:39:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id QAA23438; Mon, 15 Apr 1996 16:41:39 -0700 Date: Mon, 15 Apr 1996 16:41:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: DTURNER cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Major oops.... In-Reply-To: <9603138294.AA829452304@ccmgate.ubt.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 13 Apr 1996, DTURNER wrote: > An intern was working on my freebsd machine today and deleted "Some > files by accident..." (yeah right). Anyway when ever I do a restart, > the network daemons come up with the following error: > > cannot determine local host name. > > Each message is slightly different; but, they all say the same > thing.... some very important file was nuked. I would check your /etc directory, specifically sysconfig, resolv.conf, and hosts. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major