Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 11:37:10 -0700 (PDT) From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: stable@freebsd.org Cc: robert42@swbell.net Subject: Re: Unable to get IP address of own host during CVSup Message-ID: <200008041837.LAA24503@vashon.polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <00080315210102.01468@Praetorian> References: <00080315210102.01468@Praetorian>
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In article <00080315210102.01468@Praetorian>, Robert L. Bostic <robert42@swbell.net> wrote: > I am attempting to cvsup over a dial-up connection. I get the > following error message: > > > Praetorian# cvsup stable-supfile Cannot get IP address of my own > > host -- is its hostname correct? > > I know I can't be the first to encounter this problem. How can I > correct this? It means that the hostname which you gave your system (i.e., the output of the "hostname" command) doesn't have a valid DNS entry. You can find more information in the CVSup FAQ, which is at <http://www.polstra.com/projects/freeware/CVSup/faq.html>. See question 30 (currently it's 30, anyway) "The CVSup client dies with a segmentation violation when I try to use the GUI." (Yes, I know the question doesn't sound like it applies, but it's basically the same problem.) One easy way to work around this problem is to turn off the GUI with the "-g" option. The next release of CVSup (hopefully available before the summer is over) will try to be more tolerant of botched DNS setups. John -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence." -- Chögyam Trungpa To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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