Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 19:49:27 -0500 From: Gene Harris <geneh51@swbell.net> To: Radhika Sambamurti <radhika_narendran@yahoo.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hostname on /etc/hosts file Message-ID: <002e01c0fdd9$da9b1120$6401a8c0@development> References: <20010626004123.42865.qmail@web9303.mail.yahoo.com>
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Have you entered your machine's name using hostname? It needs to know who it is. Gene ----- Original Message ----- From: "Radhika Sambamurti" <radhika_narendran@yahoo.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> 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
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