On Sun, 2003-02-16 at 06:07, et wrote: > On Sunday 16 February 2003 08:50 am, Jeremy Salch wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On Sunday 16 February 2003 05:31 am, 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 > > > > > > If this is done then a lot of problems disappear. ( like evolution > > > taking 5 minutes or more to start.) > > > > > > > > > James > > > > I've had this same problem numerous times on my laptop. It moves from place > > to place, between diferent networks.. and without putting in my local > > HOSTNAME in the hosts file it takes forever for a lot of things to load > > > > > > > > > > > > - -- > > http:[EMAIL PROTECTED] for pgp key > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) > > > > iD8DBQE+T5dFsKWd3vub6wURAjRsAJ9kKKGpZSeMUaLh8fFnr0IjE4UyxwCfSLwt > > hShMhtN70C5G9H/OKLZe+Lo= > > =V542 > > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > I would say this is the number one complaints driver for "MANDRAKE is so slow > on my machine what runs XP really good"
Your right on the money on this one. I've got a number of Linux boxes I've "fixed" just by updating hosts file. The question that comes next is always... "But how was I supposed to know to do that." We are moving from the era of "I love it cause its fun to tweak" to " I love it cause it just works." Untill factories start installing Linux by default routinely it's going to be user installed and many of them are new, and don't know the tweaks. >
