On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Marco Gerards wrote: > Hi, > > Perhaps this is a fault of my own (I don't know much about debian), > but after installing Debian GNU/Hurd using crosshurd I didn't have a > /etc/hosts. (And this is quite irritating because starting emacs is > really slow because of this). > > Is this a known problem or did I just make a mistake? > > Thanks, > Marco > > > Try adding your hostname to /etc/hosts.