From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 30 15:50:27 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E781116A404 for ; Sun, 30 Apr 2006 15:50:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from exiaf_radar_guy38@yahoo.co.in) Received: from web8915.mail.in.yahoo.com (web8915.mail.in.yahoo.com [203.84.221.147]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C617D43D49 for ; Sun, 30 Apr 2006 15:50:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from exiaf_radar_guy38@yahoo.co.in) Received: (qmail 97906 invoked by uid 60001); 30 Apr 2006 15:50:22 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.co.in; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=AH6pzD42k+4JPPIrPONdVlbuYxt6lkDX8BmYMWgmZFmZ7E064VRj6+0Z2DhTGR28TByjgUGQQyz3HgQMc3XzJVGt/TL8y40mWKJpxHe33y2Ek3V376QTNXim2FtYnhCgG0JuA0c5B4nzpfKjDhQds0Vcq2wYR+aT5hnwJv/Vn2g= ; Message-ID: <20060430155022.97904.qmail@web8915.mail.in.yahoo.com> Received: from [203.134.199.75] by web8915.mail.in.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sun, 30 Apr 2006 16:50:22 BST Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 16:50:22 +0100 (BST) From: dharam paul To: freebsd MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: apache not starting: FreeBSd 5.4 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 15:50:28 -0000 This is a n00b here, #apachectl configtest Syntax ok httpd-error.log reports: Mon May 1 00:48:28 2006] [alert] mod_unique_id: unable to gethostbyname("cathy@alfa.alfanet.com") I am not able to understand what the problem is ServerName 127.0.0.1 (this line is uncommented) Listen 192.168.1.14:80 (This line commented or uncommented does not alter the error: Error remains : /usr/local/sbin/apachectl start: httpd could not be started I am going to use apache for the local intranet. It looks as if the host name "cathy@alfa.alfanet.com" has to be changed. Please help solve the problem Thanks n regards __________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Matrimony: Find your partner now. Go to http://yahoo.shaadi.com ____________________________________________________ Jiyo cricket on Yahoo! India cricket http://in.sports.yahoo.com/cricket/