[102506] in RedHat Linux List
Re: can't telnet to localhost
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Emmanuel Papirakis)
Thu Dec 3 17:04:36 1998
From: "Emmanuel Papirakis" <epapirakis@hotmail.com>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Date: Thu, 03 Dec 1998 10:23:51 PST
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Hey,
this could mean sevral things. Like, for one, maybe the user U are
using doesn't hava a valid shell. Or, It could be that you changed your
machine name to a name that doesn't hava a valid IP adress. Maybe the
machine name you gave it isn't in /etc/hosts.
This happened to me in my first few weeks in the linux world. What I
did, is I chanded localhost to my machine name in /etc/hosts and I set
my new machine name in /etc/HOSTNAME then I typed hostname <my new
machine name>.
Maybe if you tried to put it back to localhost, it might also work.
Papi
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