sudo problem/question

[Kipton Moravec]

On Mon, 2010-04-12 at 14:15 +0100, Luis Paulo wrote:
> What about
> $ cat /etc/hostname
> from red?

kip at red:~ $ cat /etc/hostname
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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