Date: Tue, 7 May 1996 17:17:40 -0500 (CDT) From: "Brett L. Hawn" <blh@nol.net> To: dale <khail@lovett-2030.lovett.rice.edu> Cc: Gary Palmer <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysinstall Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.93.960507171526.20852C-100000@dazed.nol.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960507145621.540B-100000@lovett-2030.lovett.rice.edu>
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On Tue, 7 May 1996, dale wrote: > >My first guess is that you have your hostname/domainname set incorrectly or > >not set at all. > > > >Brett > > i *think* they are set correctly, here is a layout of my /etc/hosts > > 127.0.0.1 localhost.lovett.rice.edu localhost > 128.42.161.30 lovett-2030.lovett.rice.edu lovett-2030 > > am i looking in the wrong place? > ermm. what I meant (should have been more clear) is that they're not being set by the system correctly. /etc/hosts is a file checked by the system for 'aliases' (ie. telnet lovett-2030 instead of telnet lovett-2030.lovett.rice.edu) rather than where the system gets its actual name from. You should be looking in /etc/sysconfig Brett
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