On 16 Feb 2003, James Sparenberg wrote: > All, > > I've run into this problem with cooker the default creation of > /etc/hosts when installing a nic card is > > 127.0.0.1 localhost > > > Now a number of apps like evolution need to "resolve" the local > hostname. Which by default is localhost.localdomain and they can't. > The fix is to have the default hosts file > > 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost >
What does 'hostname' give you? I guess localhost.localdomain. So, you will notice that it can't be hardcoded as localhost.localdomain, it should be set to `hostname`. > If this is done then a lot of problems disappear. ( like evolution > taking 5 minutes or more to start.) Of course, people in a *real* network (ie with working dns) won't see this issue ;-) -- |----------------Registered Linux User #182071-----------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7
