[olug] lpd error messages

[roger schmeits]

Suspect that /etc/hosts is missing important data.

Mine looks like this... Important that the localhost.localdomain &
localhost are in there otherwise things will break/balk.

2 cents worth -- Roger


# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
127.0.0.1	e500.clarksoncollege.edu	e500	localhost.localdomain	localhost

On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 14:58, Don E. Kauffman wrote:
> Howdy,
> 
> I've been getting some lpd error messages on startup and I'm not quite sure 
> what they mean. As best I can tell, they mean I don't have a ip addres for 
> that hostname. 
> 
> <snip>.
> 
> lpd[785]: Get_local_host: hostname 'kauffman2443.tconl.com' bad
> Get_local_host: hostname 'kauffman2443.tconl.com' bad
> lpd: lpd startup succeeded 
> 
> <snip>
> 
> My question is how would one go about inserting the ip address one gets from 
> dhcp iinto the hosts file? Is there another way around this?
> I'm running RH 7.2 with the 2.4..9-34 version of the kernel. Internal 
> networking is set up with static ip's. External is dhcp. 
> 
> eth0 ip uses dhcp and named kauffman2443.tconl.com
> eth1 ip uses static ip and named  dkauffman 
> printer is on M$ box.
> 
> File sharing from the M$ via samba won't work either.The opposite wil work 
> from the linuc box to the M$ box. (I can see the shared drives on the M$ box 
> in Linux Neighborhood.)
> 
> I'm sure there's a fix for this I just haven't found it yet.
> 
> Where can I go to find a fix? (not drugs, BTW!!) :-)
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Don Kauffman 
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