Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 15:46:43 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> To: Brian Speck <brian.speck@earthlink.net> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvsup current ports file Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1031220154406.19796B-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <E1AXnBP-0002EV-00@swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net>
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On Sat, 20 Dec 2003, Brian Speck wrote:
> I just CVSed the 5.2-Current set up and have it running great.
>
> However when I try to run "cvsup -L 2 ports-supfile" I get "Cannot get
> IP address of my own host -- is its hostname correct?" I have used this
> Supfile in the past with 5.2-beta and it worked..
>
> Is there something I am missing?
Cvsup, when doing its X11 GUI stuff, attempts to do a name lookup on your
hostname, which if unresolveable, seems to cause problems. I'm not quite
sure what it's up to -- probably trying to figure out where to connect
with TCP using the DISPLAY variable. You can fix this by:
(a) Making your hostname resolveable using DNS (either by fixing your
hostname, or fixing DNS :-). A common workaround here is to set your
hostname to 'localhost' if you don't have a working hostname.
(b) Adding your hostname to the localhost line in /etc/hosts.
You can also work around by:
(c) Not using the cvsup GUI.
Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects
robert@fledge.watson.org Senior Research Scientist, McAfee Research
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