From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 25 17:52:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta4.rcsntx.swbell.net (mta4.rcsntx.swbell.net [151.164.30.28]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4072437B401 for ; Mon, 25 Jun 2001 17:52:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from geneh51@swbell.net) Received: from development ([64.217.1.41]) by mta4.rcsntx.swbell.net (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.2000.03.23.18.03.p10) with SMTP id <0GFI000AHIFAB6@mta4.rcsntx.swbell.net> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 25 Jun 2001 19:52:22 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 19:49:27 -0500 From: Gene Harris Subject: Re: hostname on /etc/hosts file To: Radhika Sambamurti , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <002e01c0fdd9$da9b1120$6401a8c0@development> X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 References: <20010626004123.42865.qmail@web9303.mail.yahoo.com> X-Priority: 3 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 Have you entered your machine's name using hostname? It needs to know who it is. Gene ----- Original Message ----- From: "Radhika Sambamurti" To: Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 7:41 PM Subject: hostname on /etc/hosts file > My etc/host file has only the first line as "localhost" > without my hostname on the line. Every time I startx, Gnome > tells me that my hostname could not be found and that I > should put it in etc/hosts file. > > When I put it in the file, I kept getting mail...saying > "hostname" not found . > > Any idea of what I might try here or what is going on. > > Thanks > Radhika > > ===== > It's all a matter of perspective. You can choose your view by choosing where to stand. > --Larry Wall > > __________________________________________________ > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message