On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 07:19:38AM +0100, John Seago wrote:
I have answered all these posts in order as they appeared on todays digest. Thank you all those who have offered help advice and suggestions. I think the basic problem may very be with the operator rather that the Soft or Hardware, I will however persevere!
Also what does your /etc/hosts look like? Are you missing localhost by any chance?
No it looked like this: 127.0.0.1 localhost I then added the line: 127.0.0.1 thomashobbes.enlightenment.net
You shouldn't do this I don't think. The slackware /etc/hosts has the following comment:-
# By the way, Arnt Gulbrandsen agulbra@nvg.unit.no says that 127.0.0.1 # should NEVER be named with the name of the machine. It causes problems # for some (stupid) programs, irc and reputedly talk. :^) #
Probably not causing you a problem on a standalone system but worth bearing in mind. If you want to put a host name in /etc/hosts then give it a private IP address, e.g.:-
127.0.0.1 localhost 192.168.1.1 thomashobbes.enlightenment.net