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John Aldrich wrote:
>> recently had just such an issue on one of our Suns; no one knew why
>> one particular machine was so dog-slow processing logins. Turned out
>> to be a wayward space in the localhost line in /etc/hosts. =)
>>
>Ok...yeah. I fixed that. And strangely enough that *does*
>seem to have been the problem.
As one who has been known to spend entire afternoons debugging printer
problems, only to discover that the printer cable was not connected,
I've learned to start with the simple basics. ;)
>I'm not sure why though....
127.0.0.1 is used for all sorts of internal communications. Breaking
it can break lots of weird things; I wouldn't be surprised if it
caused you problems with X, too.
- -d
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David Talkington
Prairienet
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PGP key: http://www.prairienet.org/~dtalk/dt000823.asc
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