I see someone already replied to you on this, but didn't explain it. You had to switch localhost and aphro in the hosts file because when it looks like this: 127.0.0.1 localhost aphro It's saying that the machine at 127.0.0.1 is REALLY localhost, but it has an ALIAS of aphro. Since your resolver is set to use /etc/hosts (you CAN turn that off...) it thinks that the machine at 127.0.0.1 is localhost. If you flop them around, it'll think the machine is aphro, and the programs looking for localhost will still be able to "find" the machine as localhost is the alias... Hope that's right, I'm sure someone will fix my wagon (i.e. I'm wearing the flame-retardant Fruit O' the Looms today). On Wed, Dec 29, 1999 at 11:55:59PM -0800, aphro wrote: > On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Paul J. Keenan wrote: > > paul >So I would first check that /etc/hostname contains the single word > paul >aphro. > > i just checked it again, it does, that file never changed. > > paul >It seems that the syslogd gets its info from calling uname(2), which > paul >at kernel level invokes sys_gethostname in /usr/src/linux/kernel/sys.c > > uname -n gives just 'aphro' > > i just removed the 'aphro' from my /etc/hosts's line that was > > 127.0.0.1 localhost aphro > > and restarted syslogd and it was back to 'normal' if i add aphro back and > restart again it goes back to localhost ..odd! (just tried this just now) > > thanks! > > nate > > ----------------------------------------[mailto:aphro@aphroland.org ]-- > Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ > Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ > Everett, WA 425-348-7336 http://www.linuxpowered.net/ > Powered By: http://comedy.aphroland.org/ > Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMP http://yahoo.aphroland.org/ > -----------------------------------------[mailto:aphro@netquest.net ]-- > 11:30pm up 132 days, 11:24, 3 users, load average: 2.67, 2.40, 1.94 > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe debian-user-request@lists.debian.org < /dev/null > -- Nate Duehr <nate@natetech.com> GPG Key fingerprint = DCAF 2B9D CC9B 96FA 7A6D AAF4 2D61 77C5 7ECE C1D2 Public Key available upon request, or at wwwkeys.pgp.net and others.
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