** Reply to message from "Eric Diamond" <eric@xxxxxxxxxxxx> on Mon, 10 May 2004 22:22:43 -0600 > Monday, May 10, 2004 4:18 PM Erik P. Olsen asked: > > I have suddenly begun to receive the following message box at > > log on. It happens for any user except root: > > The key is that it happens with all non-root users... Yoa are so right. In the wisdom of hindsight I see clearly what was wrong. Comming from a single user system I am not so used to think of the permissions of files :-) > > > Could not look up internet address for epohost.epo.dk. > > This will prevent GNOME from operating correctly. > > It may be possible to correct the problem by adding > > epohost.epo.dk to the file /etc/hosts. > > Gnome needs to be able to resolve the hostname to an address for it to > function correcty. > > > The domain name has all the time been in /etc/hosts, so I > > suspect the problem has come after applying a recent update. > > I think I updated an ip<something> package just before I > > first saw the message pop-up. > > Probably not an update, unless it changed the permissions on /etc/hosts. > This sounds like /etc/hosts is only root readable. Right on, that was the problem. Thanks for opening my eyes. [snip] -- Regards, Erik P. Olsen
