Hi Patrick On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 09:27 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 04:18 -0400, William Case wrote: > > "httpd: could not reliably determine the servers fully qualified > > domain name using 127.0.0.1 for server name." > > Bill, you do realize that 127.0.0.1 is localhost, right? I don't know > what your problem is, but I would start from there. Yes. This was part of a self-imposed network learning exercise, so I had already learnt the importance of 127.0.0.1 loopback. First problem; my 'hosts' file backup was recovered. So I think that was what I had. Every manual and the file itself said don't touch this file. I touched it. Did I get it back to its original shape? I tried replacing 127.0.0.1 with 192.168.1.3 which 'ifconfig' and 'hostname -va' say is my inet addr. (Why it is not 192.168.1.1 is a question for another day). My ifcfg-eth0 script says: # nVidia Corporation MCP51 Ethernet Controller DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=dhcp HWADDR=00:1a:92:e5:dc:47 ONBOOT=yes DHCP_HOSTNAME=CASE NM_CONTROLLED=no TYPE=Ethernet DNS1=192.168.1.1 'route' also lists the default as 192.168.1.1 not xxx.xxx.x.3 When I look at the NetworkManager 'thingy' (Is thingy spelt 'thingy' or 'thingie'?) there is a whole bunch of blank fields. Learning what to put in those fields was the point of the exercise. I had assumed that the gui fields would reflect the data in a configuration file somewhere but it apparently doesn't. Second problem; I originally used the system-control-network thingy. Both were on my administration menu. I understand now that that has been deprecated in favour of system-config-network. Could that have messed things up? This is getting frustrating. I have always let various frontends in both Linux and other OSes set up my internet. The first time I dive in, reality does not seem to match the manuals and textbooks. -- Regards Bill; Fedora 9, Gnome 2.22.3 Evo.2.22.3.1, Emacs 22.2.1 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list