Re: some dev files disappeared, mouse doesn't work, no hostname

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Kent West wrote:

> > [When] I try to do a "sudo", even something simple like "sudo ls", I 
> > get:
> >    sudo: unable to lookup westk03 via gethostbyname()
> > (westk03 is the name of this computer), and once I got something like 
> > "hostname does not exist", even though the command "hostname" reports 
> > "westk03" and that's what's in /etc/hostname.

Somehow my /etc/hosts file disappeared. I created a new one, making sure 
my first line was:
   127.0.0.1       localhost               westk03
and now all is well.

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Kent