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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!newsfeed.ksu.ksu.edu!news.physics.uiowa.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!Germany.EU.net!Dortmund.Germany.EU.net!interface-business.de!usenet From: j@ida.interface-business.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc Subject: Re: Host name Date: 24 Jun 1996 09:15:00 GMT Organization: interface business GmbH, Dresden Lines: 20 Message-ID: <4qlmak$1ff@innocence.interface-business.de> References: <4qeadu$b0c@uwm.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: ida.interface-business.de X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-31809-14 X-Fax: +49-351-3361187 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E bacon@miller.cs.uwm.edu (Jason Bacon) wrote: > I'm having trouble getting my host name set up. At boot time, I get > > myname.my.domain: BAD VALUE > > Afterwards, the mail daemon gives me > > My host name (myname.my.domain) does not seem to exist!: Put 127.0.0.1 localhost myname.my.domain. into your /etc/hosts. (Take care of the trailing dot.) -- J"org Wunsch Unix support engineer joerg_wunsch@interface-business.de http://www.interface-business.de/~j