SOLVED: lpr: unable to get official name for local machine
Brian K Servis writes:
>
>For those of you following this here is an update.
>
>It appears to be some sort of name lookup failure. I can't figure it
>out. When I try and print with lpr it fails with the error given in
>the subject. This turns out is just an indicator of something else. I
>have a stand alone machine that I dial in to my isp and run slirp to
>emulate ppp. So, I have given my machine a bogus name of
>servis.snet. Before I upgraded to 1.3 I could ping, finger, telnet,
>etc to servis.snet. Now nothing seems to be able to figure out what
>servis.snet is. My conf files are:
>
Well, it turns out that /etc/host.conf only had permissions
1 -rw------- 1 root root 20 Jun 6 16:52 /etc/host.conf
and this was screwing everything up. I changed it to
1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20 Jun 6 16:52 /etc/host.conf
and I am back to normal! Yipee!
I don't know how it got changed, I don't remeber doing it by hand. It
seemed to happed during the upgrade to 1.3 but I checked the
base-files package and it doesn't set the permissions wrong. It is a
mystery but a lesson as well. Take note. NONE of the docs, HOW-TO's, man
pages seem to mention the permisions required of the conf files otherwise
I would have found this long ago. Live and learn I guess.
Brian
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