Re: sudo - unable to lookup host via gethostbyname() SOLVED

[Shawn Lamson <madzimambo@yahoo.com>]

Thanks Morten and Anthony; 
changing /etc/hosts to reflect the new hostname eliminated that error
message.

Shawn
--- Morten Bo Johansen <mbj@spamfilter.dk> wrote:
> Shawn Lamson <madzimambo@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> SL> Hi all - 
> 
> SL> I changed my hostname from callerio to callerio.piscat.nj
> SL> and now when i invoke "sudo" i get the followin message:
> SL> slamson@callerio:~$ sudo -v sudo: unable to lookup
> SL> callerio.piscat.nj via gethostbyname()
> 
> Do you have callerio.piscat.nj in /etc/hosts?
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Morten
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