From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 11 20:31:30 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fbsd.bosa.ca (cr1003901-a.rct1.bc.wave.home.com [24.113.37.99]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B11137B423 for ; Fri, 11 May 2001 20:31:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kulraj@bosa.ca) Received: from ska1 (h207-230-227-196.dccnet.com [207.230.227.196]) by fbsd.bosa.ca (Postfix) with SMTP id 89D27158EBA; Fri, 11 May 2001 21:39:01 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <010701c0da93$dc10a560$64c8a8c0@kimsamy.com> From: "Kulraj Gurm (bosa.ca Account)" To: "Elfar A. Ingvarsson" Cc: References: Subject: Re: Mysql install failure Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 20:30:05 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Your hostname does not correctly resolve. Fix this and try again. Or read the MySQL documentation there is an over ride for this. Regards, Kulraj Gurm ----- Original Message ----- From: "Elfar A. Ingvarsson" To: Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 12:36 PM Subject: Mysql install failure > When im installing mysql323-server from source i get this output > > ---------------------- > > /usr/local/bin/mysql_install_db > sorry, the host 'erwin' could not be looked up. > please configure the 'hostname' command to return > a correct hostname. > > Error 1 > ---------------------------------------- > when I tried hostname first it gave me erwin > > i changed it to erwin.pc.is and tried to install again > but no go > > any idea about what else i can do? > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message