Re: Message fron chron: cannot get ip address for localhost

2001-11-12 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on Monday, November 12, Cheryl Homiak did write: > Ok, fitst I checked and made sure I do have a dynamic isp. I do. > Secondly, I now have got it to recognize my fqdn as > maranatha.chartermi.net and my dnsdomainname as chartermi.net. > However, if I put localhost in between the "127.0.0.1 an

Re: Message fron chron: cannot get ip address for localhost

2001-11-12 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Ok, fitst I checked and made sure I do have a dynamic isp. I do. Secondly, I now have got it to recognize my fqdn as maranatha.chartermi.net and my dnsdomainname as chartermi.net. However, if I put localhost in between the "127.0.0.1 and the "maranatha.chartermi.net" I will start getting "localhost

Re: Message fron chron: cannot get ip address for localhost

2001-11-11 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on , November 11, Michael Heldebrant did write: > lo should be there, it's going to be the major interface, if not the > only interface (I can't think of why it wouldn't but ... *shrug* I'm not > that much of an expert), that localhost traffic uses. My understanding is that it depends on the

Re: Message fron chron: cannot get ip address for localhost

2001-11-11 Thread Richard Cobbe
Lo, on , November 11, Michael Heldebrant did write: > On Sun, 2001-11-11 at 13:31, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > > > > My /etc/hosts contains the following: > > 127.0.0.1 maranatha > > This is most likely the root of your problems. Your computer can't find > any reference to the localhost. > > Cha

Re: Message fron chron: cannot get ip address for localhost

2001-11-11 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Are you saying that dhcpcd can't be used with dynamic ips; my understanding was that dhcpcd and dhcp-client and pump were basically equivalent programs, or at least had equivalent purposes.

Re: Message fron chron: cannot get ip address for localhost

2001-11-11 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Sun, 2001-11-11 at 16:48, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > Ok, I' didn't think I was supposed to have a static ip, but my internet > address acording to ifconfig has stayed the same; is that normal? It's a > different address, by the way, if I take out dhcpcd and use pump; I did > that to see what would h

Re: Message fron chron: cannot get ip address for localhost

2001-11-11 Thread Cheryl Homiak
Ok, I' didn't think I was supposed to have a static ip, but my internet address acording to ifconfig has stayed the same; is that normal? It's a different address, by the way, if I take out dhcpcd and use pump; I did that to see what would happen. Also, my nameservers in /etc/resolve.conf are both

Re: Message fron chron: cannot get ip address for localhost

2001-11-11 Thread Michael Heldebrant
On Sun, 2001-11-11 at 13:31, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > My /etc/hosts contains the following: > 127.0.0.1 maranatha This is most likely the root of your problems. Your computer can't find any reference to the localhost. Change this to: 127.0.0.1 localhost or 127.0.0.1 localhost maranatha A

Message fron chron: cannot get ip address for localhost

2001-11-11 Thread Cheryl Homiak
I need to get at the root of this problem because I am also having problems with my mail. I am able to get it with fetchmail, but I allways get errors about "smtp connection to localhost failed unable to raise listener falling back to /usr/sbin/sendmail " during the process. I am using fetchmail