sudo problem/question

[Luis Paulo]

What about
$ cat /etc/hostname
from red?

On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 12:59 PM, Kipton Moravec <kip at kdream.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 2010-04-12 at 05:35 -0400, Tom H wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 1:53 AM, Kipton Moravec <kip at kdream.com> wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2010-04-12 at 01:24 -0400, Tom H wrote:
> > >> On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 11:46 PM, Kipton Moravec <kip at kdream.com>
> wrote:
> > >> > When I try to use sudo on one of my 8.04 Ubuntu computers I get the
> > >> > message
> > >> >
> > >> > sudo: unable to resolve host violet
> > >> >
> > >> > It then asks for the password.
> > >> >
> > >> > The prompt is kip at violet:
> > >> >
> > >> > So part of the machine knows it is violet.
> > >> > violet is the name of the machine in the System -> Network ->
> General
> > >> > (Tab) -> Host Name: field.
> > >> >
> > >> > How do I fix it so the warning does not appear?
> > >> >
> > >> > I tried adding an alias in the hosts as it had
> > >> >
> > >> > 127.0.0.1 localhost violet.Workgroup
> > >> >
> > >> > so I changed it to
> > >> >
> > >> > 127.0.0.1 localhost violet.Workgroup violet
> > >> >
> > >> > but that did not fix it.
> > >>
> > >> Please post
> > >> cat /etc/hostname
> > >> cat /etc/hosts
> > >>
> > > kip at violet:~$ cat /etc/hostname
> > > violet
> > > kip at violet:~$ cat /etc/hosts
> > > 127.0.0.1 localhost
> > > 127.0.1.1 violet.home violet.workgroup violet.WORKGROUP
> >
> > You have to boot into single/recovery mode and add violet to the
> 127.0.1.1 line.
> >
>
> That fixed it.
>
> My other computer red does not have the problem.
>
> kip at red:~ $ cat /etc/hosts
> 127.0.0.1 localhost red.Workgroup
> 127.0.1.1 red.Workgroup
>
>
> # The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
> ::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
> fe00::0 ip6-localnet
> ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
> ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
> ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
> ff02::3 ip6-allhosts
>
>
> And it does not have red in the line. And it works. I do not understand.
>
> Kip
>
>
>
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