Re: hostname bogosity

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Michael D. Harnois wrote:

> I'm perplexed by a network configuration problem on my system. hostname
> returns the correct name; yet on startup, KDE says "Can't get own host
> name. Your system is severely misconfigured," and my DHCP server doesn't
> recognize the hostname for the system either. Where could the problem
> be?
>
>  
My first guess would be that you're missing the following line in 
/etc/hosts:

127.0.0.1       harnoiscomputer localhost


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Kent