On Tuesday 18 October 2005 13:34, sean wrote: > A faint memory tells me that a line in /etc/hosts could help: > <hostname> 127.0.0.1 > where hostname is from /etc/sysconfig/network. Thanks Sean. You're the man! Although the hostname entry was there, I didn't know I was assigned a name on the local DNS. Thus, I had to enter that name on the file. Many many thanks. Jorge