Re: lpr: unable to get official name for local machine
Brian K Servis wrote:
>
> Help!
>
> Ever since I upgrade to frozen(May 25) I am having all kinds of problems
> with name resolution. Lpr is one of them, when lpd starts I get the
> following repeated 5 times in messages:
>
> Jun 3 13:35:39 widget-servis lpd[374]: unable to get official name for local machine widget-servis
>
> I connect to my isp via dialup and us slirp to emulate ppp so I gave my
> machine a bogus name of widget-servis.
>
> I didn't have any problems before with 1.2. Other problems include ppp, ping,
> emacs, etc. Basically anything that trys to do a name resolve when starting
> or uses a name resolve. I didn't change any of my hostname, resolve.conf,
> hosts.* files during the upgrade.
This may be true. However, perhaps one of these got changed anyway.
Why don't you include them in your post. This would be very helpful.
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Jens B. Jorgensen
jjorgens@bdsinc.com
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