On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 17:16, Marc Adler wrote: > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Behalf Of Marc Adler > > Sent: Friday, September 12, 2003 5:47 AM > > To: Red Hat Mailing List > > Subject: URGENT: postfix fails, no internet connection > > > > > > This morning I turned on my RH9 system and it paused around 30 > > seconds when > > starting up NFS and then paused at postfix and failed, giving me a message > > saying: > > > > Starting postfix: postalias: fatal: config variable inet_interfaces: host > > not found: localhost > > > > My other unit is a W2K and it can get onto the internet just fine (as you > > can see). > > > > Anybody have any ideas? > > > > Marc > > > > Ok. No takers. I added a line to my /etc/hosts file specifying that > 127.0.0.1 was localhost, and that seemed to fix postfix and NFS starts up ok > now. But I still have no access to the internet. eth0 boots just fine, too. > Now that there are no error messages at all but I *still* can't access the > internet, I guess I'll just have to reinstall. Being an ex-MS user, at least > it's a familiar routine... ;-) > > Marc
Well, re-install is a bit drastic. You say you cannot get on the 'Internet'. Is that what you mean, or do you mean that you have no network connectivity? The most likely place to look is in your network connectivity, i.e., bits flowing out of your box through your network adapter. Everything you have post so far, which is not much, is consistent with the network adapter either being dead, or not being configured and up under Linux. What is the output of ifconfig -a? Are there any boot messages about eth0? Is the driver for you network interface card loaded? Can you ping the W2K box? You had hints there that this was/is a network connection issue. Follow up on those. If you need more leads, please post more info. You do not give us much to go on. - rick -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
