Re: ifconfig refuses to configure loopback address

1996-09-19 Thread Mike
Can you help me make sense of these smail messages that appear in my /var/spool/smail/msglog/ files (there are now around 20 such files all claiming the same thing)? A portion of one such message file: Xdefer: <<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> reason: (ERR148) transport smtp: connect: Connection timed out Xd

ifconfig refuses to configure loopback address

1996-08-08 Thread Mike
I'm trying to install Debian 1.1 and can't seem to get the loopback device configured. At boot up the error: SCIOADDRT: Invalid argument appears when the /etc/init.d/network script runs. The offending line in this script is: route add -net 127.0.0.0 ifconfig reports (output below) that