Re: Message fron chron: cannot get ip address for localhost

[Michael Heldebrant <hmike@portalofevil.com>]

On Sun, 2001-11-11 at 13:31, Cheryl Homiak wrote:

<problem snipped since all relevance is right here below>
> My /etc/hosts contains the following:
> 127.0.0.1	maranatha

This is most likely the root of your problems.  Your computer can't find
any reference to the localhost.

Change this to:

127.0.0.1 localhost

or

127.0.0.1 localhost maranatha

Additionally:
if you have a static ip for your computer put that ip in /etc/hosts with
your machine name, and check/edit /etc/hostname to make sure it's your
machine name.

--mike