[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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