Problem with sudo

[Avi Greenbury]

On Sun, 1 Jun 2008 14:22:37 +0000
"Sameera Shaakunthala" <shaakunthala at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
> 

Does shaakunthala-laptop exist in your /etc/hosts file? It should point at 127.0.0.1

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Avi Greenbury