[Techtalk] Hostname/printer problem

[Robyn Manning]

My hosts file is like this

# Do no remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
127.0.0.1	tux localhost.localdomain	localhost

my computers hostname is tux and there is only 1 space above between tux
and localhost.localdomain. The hostname goes first.

Robyn

On Mon, 2004-04-12 at 02:11, housekm at fastmail.fm wrote:
> This may be too elementary a question for this list, but here goes - 
> I've had a persistent problem with my hostname:  whenever I go into X,
> for instance, I get a "hostname lookup failure" message.  I wasn't able
> to fix it, or find any information on what caused it.  
> 
> Now I'm trying to hook up a printer for the first time.  LPD keeps
> failing, either with "2004-04-11-09:18:28.997 Get_local_host: hostname
> 'Bertie.localdomain' bad"
> 
> or if I set the hostname to localhost.localdomain:
> 
> hostname localhost.localdomain
> [root at Bertie root]# lpd
> Fatal error - Cannot bind to lpd port '515'
> 
> I got the printer to work once after reseting the host name to
> localhost.localdomain and maybe doing something to the hosts file as
> well.  Then I rebooted the system; the system recognized the printer for
> the first time and configured it, but tbe LPD start failed, due to the
> hostname problem.  
> 
> I had set the host name after loading linux for the first time, having
> missed that part during the initial load. Since then, it seems that the
> system hasn't set all the places where the name is referenced to the
> right name.  I believe I set it with Kickstart, but can't remember now.  
> 
> My system right now is Redhat 8.0, Linux version 2.4.18 The printer is an
> Epson Stylus 740, no problem with bootup recognizing it or locating
> drivers.  This is from dmesg: 
> 
> parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP]
> parport0: irq 7 detected
> parport0: Printer, EPSON Stylus COLOR 740
> 
> This is my hosts file right now:
> # Do not remove the following line, or various programs
> # that require network functionality will fail.
> 127.0.0.1               localhost
> 0.0.0.0                 localhost.localdomain Bertie
> 
> and resolv.conf:
> nameserver 209.244.0.3
> nameserver 209.244.0.4
> 
> I would really appreciate help with this - like I said, I can't find
> anything that puts the hostname error together with a cause and solution
> to the problem.  
> 
> Kathleen