--- Manuel McLure <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thursday 02 February 2006 18:56, maxim wexler > wrote: > > Did emerge -C cups and emerge lprng now every > attempt > > at using lpr results in > > > > Get_local_host: hostname 'sarawak' bad > > > > What do they mean bad? When I run hostname, > "sarawak" > > appears. > > I think this happens if /etc/hosts and > /etc/conf.d/hostname don't match up > correctly. Make sure /etc/hosts has a line for > sarawak with your machine's IP > address. > Here's my original /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost # IPV6 versions of localhost and co ::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback fe00::0 ip6-localnet ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix ff02::1 ip6-allnodes ff02::2 ip6-allrouters ff02::3 ip6-allhosts So far have take three stabs at changing it: 1. replaced "localhost" with "sarawak" result: 'localhost' IP address not available! 2. replaced "localhost" with "localhost.localdomain sarawak" result: 'localhost' IP address not available! 3. added "sarawak" after "localhost" result: Cannot open connection to localhost - No such file or directory. FWIW I'm on dialup and the on-board NIC is not being used at this time. This seems like a simple matter of a few characters. But the number of possible permutations must be enormous. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
