hostname

[Daniel Silverstone]

On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 13:47 +0100, john wrote:
> yep. got that, in the meantime I tried simply small, but i got the same 
> problem.
> eg.
> |user at mymachine: sudo -i
> |sudo: unable to lookup small via gethostbyname()
> I don't get it. it worked fine even with the dot for 3-4 months, and now i get 
> this warning, which by the way now gives me trouble, for example amule 
> displays a warning, but starts in the background if i start it from a kde 
> icon, if i start it from command line it does start, displays a warning, but 
> can be seen.

Check that your hostname matches that which is on the 127.0.0.1 line
in /etc/hosts

Add your hostname to that line if it's missing

Then try

D.

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