[Techtalk] Hostname/printer problem

[housekm at fastmail.fm]

Thank you.  That appears to have been part of the problem - I changed the
hosts file to this:

127.0.0.1               localhost
0.0.0.0                 Bertie Bertie.localdomain localhost

and still got the 515 port error message.  

After much googling and browsing, I also changed the services file to
listen on port 516 instead of 515, but still got the same error message. 

This is what finally did it: 

chkconfig cups-lpd off
hostname Bertie.localdomain
/sbin/service lpd stop
/sbin/service lpd start


lpr and lp both worked after that, and appear to be still working after
reboot.  Don't know if changing the port did anything, but it didn't look
like anything was using 516 and I'm in the if it works, don't touch it!
mode.

Thanks for your suggestion, it was indeed part of the solution.

Kathleen
On Mon, 12 Apr 2004 02:19:08 +0930, "Robyn Manning"
<rmanning at adam.com.au> said:
> 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
> 

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