Many thanks, Mark! On 26 Apr 2002, Mark Janssen wrote:
> Run '/sbin/ifconfig' and see if 'lo0' is up... it probably isn't... > > Try enabling your loopback interface and try again, if it still doesn't > work, send more mail (with good content and error msgs, like this one :) Yup, that was it. It happened because /etc/network/interfaces didn't require "auto" statements in potato for the interfaces to actually start up. I added auto lo before the exising iface lo inet loopback and all was well. Infuriatingly, I had already sorted this out for eth0 and didn't think to do the same for loopback. Duh. Thanks again! Hugh ============S=u=p=p=o=r=t===D=e=b=i=a=n===http://www.debian.org============ Dr. Hugh C. Pumphrey | Tel. 0131-650-6026,Fax:0131-650-5780 Institute for Meteorology | Replace 0131 with +44-131 if outside UK The University of Edinburgh | Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] EDINBURGH EH9 3JZ, Scotland | URL: http://www.met.ed.ac.uk/~hcp ============S=u=p=p=o=r=t==g=9=5==http://g95.sourceforge.net/============== -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
