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Re: Hostname

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jan Carlson)
Tue Dec 1 02:52:50 1998

Date: Tue, 01 Dec 1998 02:33:10 -0500
From: Jan Carlson <janc@iname.com>
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"Rick L. Mantooth" wrote:

> Mike,
> Maybe a quick "work-around" would be to tweak your /etc/hosts:
>
> xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx you.euclid.net  localhost.localdomain

Bad idea.  Several parts of the system need this line:
127.0.0.1       localhost       localhost.localdomain

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Jan Carlson
janc@iname.com   Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
Mailed with Netscape 4.5 on Red Hat Linux 5.2




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