Re: hostname bogosity

2003-12-15 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 08:23:35AM -0600, Michael D. Harnois wrote: | On Sun, 2003-12-14 at 03:20, John Smith wrote: | | > just to be sure, you say 'identical', they are not useing the | > same hostname, I hope? | | Well, no, they aren't. But the hosts files are identical; it's only the | /etc/ho

Re: hostname bogosity

2003-12-14 Thread Thomas Hood
On Sun, 2003-12-14 at 15:34, Michael D. Harnois wrote: > On Sun, 2003-12-14 at 04:47, Thomas Hood wrote: > > If you are using hostname version 2.11 then you should > > upgrade to version 2.12 . More info at bugreport #223521. > > How very odd. Yes, that does make hostname -f work. :) > The str

Re: hostname bogosity

2003-12-14 Thread Michael D. Harnois
On Sun, 2003-12-14 at 04:47, Thomas Hood wrote: > If you are using hostname version 2.11 then you should > upgrade to version 2.12 . More info at bugreport #223521. How very odd. Yes, that does make hostname -f work. The strange thing, though, is that with both 2.11 and 2.12, hostname --version r

Re: hostname bogosity

2003-12-14 Thread Michael D. Harnois
On Sun, 2003-12-14 at 03:10, John Smith wrote: > check your /etc/hostname which should contain your hostname > only, /etc/hosts which should contain your ip-address and hostname, > /etc/nsswitch.conf which should contain some line like hosts: files > dns > and wether the contents of your /etc/reso

Re: hostname bogosity

2003-12-14 Thread Michael D. Harnois
On Sun, 2003-12-14 at 03:20, John Smith wrote: just to be sure, you say 'identical', they are not useing the same hostname, I hope? Well, no, they aren't. But the hosts files are identical; it's only the /etc/hostname file that needs to be different. -- Michael D. Harnois 3L,

Re: hostname bogosity

2003-12-14 Thread Thomas Hood
If you are using hostname version 2.11 then you should upgrade to version 2.12 . More info at bugreport #223521. -- Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: hostname bogosity

2003-12-14 Thread John Smith
On Sun, 2003-12-14 at 05:48, Michael D. Harnois wrote: > On Sat, 2003-12-13 at 22:26, Kent West wrote: > > > My first guess would be that you're missing the following line in > > /etc/hosts: > > > > 127.0.0.1 harnoiscomputer localhost > > A wonderful idea, but alas, the hosts file on my l

Re: hostname bogosity

2003-12-14 Thread John Smith
Hi Michael, check your /etc/hostname which should contain your hostname only, /etc/hosts which should contain your ip-address and hostname, /etc/nsswitch.conf which should contain some line like hosts: files dns and wether the contents of your /etc/resolv.conf is still valid. All files s

Re: hostname bogosity

2003-12-13 Thread Michael D. Harnois
On Sat, 2003-12-13 at 22:26, Kent West wrote: > My first guess would be that you're missing the following line in > /etc/hosts: > > 127.0.0.1 harnoiscomputer localhost A wonderful idea, but alas, the hosts file on my laptop is identical to the one on this machine, and the laptop doesn't m

Re: hostname bogosity

2003-12-13 Thread Kent West
Michael D. Harnois wrote: I'm perplexed by a network configuration problem on my system. hostname returns the correct name; yet on startup, KDE says "Can't get own host name. Your system is severely misconfigured," and my DHCP server doesn't recognize the hostname for the system either. Where coul

hostname bogosity

2003-12-13 Thread Michael D. Harnois
I'm perplexed by a network configuration problem on my system. hostname returns the correct name; yet on startup, KDE says "Can't get own host name. Your system is severely misconfigured," and my DHCP server doesn't recognize the hostname for the system either. Where could the problem be? -- Micha