On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 11:38 -0500, Matt Morgan wrote: > On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 09:36:47 -0600, Thomas Cameron > <thomas.cameron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: ---<snip> > > > > Why not just use hostname -i? > > This would help me out too, so I tried this. I get 127.0.0.1 :-). How > can I fix that so that command gives me the address I actually want? > man hostname doesn't help me. Thanks. Check your /etc/hosts file. If localhost IP includes your hostname, that's what you'll get. Change it to this: 127.0.0.1 localhost.<localdomain> localhost And if you have a static IP address, and not using a local DNS to resolve IP addresses, then put a separate line for the address of your NIC. -- C. Linus Hicks <lhicks at nc dot rr dot com>
