If you are out of ideas, you might:

Muck around in the source code and see what generates this error.

Or

Muck around in /etc/lpd.conf, and see what localhost is set to. Is this
a multihomed host?
Joel

On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 03:43:49PM -0500, Al Baillie wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> lpd will not start but aborts giving the error message:
>     Get_local_host: hostname 'cr560847-a.........com'  bad
> but the  hostname is in fact correct.
> 
> Help/suggestions would be appreciated.
> 
> cheers
> Al
> 

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