On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 20:53 -0500, Gilbert Sebenste wrote: > On Fri, 5 Oct 2007, Frank Cox wrote: > > > On Fri, 05 Oct 2007 19:56:30 -0500 (CDT) > > Gilbert Sebenste <sebenste@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > >> Thanks Frank and Rick, but this didn't solve my problem. Indeed, the > >> /etc/hosts file was messed up, so I fixed it, rebooted, and I still get > >> the same warning message. Gotta be another place where it's messed up... > > > > Post your /etc/hosts and /etc/sysconfig/network files. > > /etc/hosts: > > # Do not remove the following line, or various programs > # that require network functionality will fail. > 127.0.0.1 weather.admin.niu.edu weather localhost.localdomain localhost > ::1 localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6 > > /etc/sysconfig/network: > > NETWORKING=yes > HOSTNAME=weather.admin.niu.edu > Not sure if this will work, but try swapping the order in /etc/hosts so it looks like: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost weather.admin.niu.edu weather Something might be doing a reverse lookup and getting upset at the "first name" not being localhost.localdomain.... HTH, --Rob
