From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 13 23:54:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from web12305.mail.yahoo.com (web12305.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.173.103]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4A24037B406 for ; Fri, 13 Jul 2001 23:54:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kdagee2@yahoo.com) Message-ID: <20010714065410.1554.qmail@web12305.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [32.100.100.81] by web12305.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 13 Jul 2001 23:54:10 PDT Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 23:54:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Karl Agee Subject: problem getting updates.... To: FreeBSD-Questions@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi again, I am having a problem getting updates for my 4.0 system, when I run su-2.03# /usr/local/bin/cvsup supfile I get the following: Cannot get IP address of my own host -- is its hostname correct? hummm.... /etc/hosts: # Host Database # This file should contain the addresses and aliases # for local hosts that share this file. # In the presence of the domain name service or NIS, this file may # not be consulted at all; see /etc/host.conf for the resolution order. # # 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.my.domain myname.my.domain ::1 localhost localhost.my.domain myname.my.domain /etc/host.conf # $FreeBSD: src/etc/host.conf,v 1.6 1999/08/27 23:23:41 peter Exp $ # First try the /etc/hosts file hosts # Now try the nameserver next. bind # If you have YP/NIS configured, uncomment the next line # nis both are "out-of-the-box"... --karl __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message