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Re: lprm says "Permission denied" (fwd)



On Wed, 26 Feb 1997 15:13:58 +0100 Andreas Nowack (nowack@kawo2.rwth-a
achen.de) wrote:

> lprm can't regonize that the user "spiegl" is a local user because of
> a problem with your hostname in /etc/hostname and /etc/hosts.
> 
> If /etc/hostname looks like
> 	your_hostname
> 
> then your /etc/hosts file should contain a line like this
> 	<your ip number>   your_hostname   your_hostname.somewhere.com
> 
> The order of the two names in /etc/hosts is very important.

This is as simple as that !
This should be put ASAP in the lpd documentation.
But doesn't it conflict with the requirement that the official name for a machine (ie FQDN) should be put first in /etc/hosts ?

Phil.




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