Problem with sudo

[mike]

Wade Smart wrote:
> 20080601 0929 GMT-6
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> When you click on the terminal, what is written on the screen?
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> Mine is: wadesmart at wadesmart:~$
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> Wade
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> Sameera Shaakunthala wrote:
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>> When I try to use sudo in the terminal, it gives an error message saying 
>> "sudo: unable to resolve host shaakunthala-laptop"
>> shaakunthala-laptop is the computer name.
>> But the problem does not arise when the computer is connect to the network.
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>> Can anybody tell me how to fix this problem?
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>> Thank you!
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>> * Shaakunthala
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>> -- 
>> ..:Sameera Shaakunthala:..
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>> il ask rhe same question terminal should have nothing to do with being connected to the network. unless your computer is running slave and getting its OS from another machine
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