[PLUG] Changing computer name

Dan Young youngdan at parkrose.k12.or.us
Tue Dec 3 05:09:03 UTC 2002


On 2 Dec 2002, Robbert van Andel wrote:

> Okay, I spoke too soon.  I tried setting up my printer and came up with
> an error message when starting lpd.  The error I got was robbert
> Get_local_host: 'localhost' IP address not available.  I had to reset my
> hosts and network files back to localhost to get lpd to start properly. 
> Not sure why.  Any suggestions on how to work around this?

Does your /etc/hosts still have localhost in the 127.0.0.1 line?

AFAIK, you can (should?) list multiple names in a single line, i.e. you 
should list dell in addition to localhost, rather than replacing 
localhost.

-Dan Young
-Parkrose School District





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