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At 01:16 AM 5/9/98 -0400, Joel Robert Oliveira wrote:
>thanks to Dave's suggestions I succesfully got that "moving" linux box 
>transported to the other side of campus and working properly .. thing is, 
>now I have another problem.  For some reason I cannot start httpd .. it 
>keeps telling me that I have no hostname .. but i do .. chacked a 
>million places and ran hostname also .. here was the output -
>
><snip>
>[root@conan /root]# httpd: cannot determine local host name.
>Use ServerName to set it manually.
></snip>
>
>
>so i uncommented the Servername part of httpd.conf .. and now I got this:
>
><snip>
>[root@conan conf]# httpd: cannot determine the IP address of the 
>specified ServerName (conan.hartford.edu).
></snip>
>
>Now .. this never happened to me before.  I had this saem machine in 
>another spot with another ip .. and apache worked fine.. inetd got it 
>going on every boot.  The ip is correct as far as I know .. hell.. i can 
>telnet into it .. ping it .. the whole shebang.  just can't get the http 
>daemon running.  what gives ?? any sugestions ?
>
>one more thing .. if anyone ever needs to just change an ip of a machine 
>in a move .. the only file that needs to be changed is 
>/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0  Wrong. .. I changed only that
ip .. 
>and it worked like a charm. 
 Maybe that's a clue as to what's up with the 
>web server..  TIA !

I think your right.

Check out your /etc/hosts file. The system still thinks conan.hartford.edu
is your old IP addy.
To test this to make sure I'm right try: ping conan or ping
conan.hartford.edu before you look at that file.

You got further than most would have. <grin>


Dan

>
>
>                Joel Oliveira
>            [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>http://morpheus.hartford.edu/cs/student/joliveir


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