Paul Smith: >> I thank all of you who tried to help me. I do not have the file >> /etc/hosts. Alexander Dalloz: > You then by accident deleted that config file. Recreate it! It is > necessary for enough applications to work properly. So for example your > Gnome or KDE should complain at start for not being able to translate > your hostname. I would have thought that, by now, at least localhost would have been a default, with or without the hosts file. Even localhost.localdomain, which seems a Linux, or Red Hat peculiarity. I'd agree, it should be re-instated. But I've noticed that my machines will work without any specific local IP address in the hosts file if they can resolve the IP through DNS (e.g. DHCPD set addresses), or they're set to just be localhost.localdomain. -- Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
