hosts

Im having a problem when i startx,It tells me that gnome cant pick my internet details up and wont work propley unless i add my name to /etc/hosts i have done this on the end of hosts ,
Hostname <myname> but im still getting the mesage.

don't know if this will help, but this is all I have in my /etc/hosts :-

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[root@localhost ~]# cat /etc/hosts
# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost

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nb. the 127.0.0.1 is the loopback address that all TCP/IP computers have.

have fun

Nerderello

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Originally Posted by mactabilis

Im having a problem when i startx,It tells me that gnome cant pick my internet details up and wont work propley unless i add my name to /etc/hosts i have done this on the end of hosts ,
Hostname <myname> but im still getting the mesage.

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In your hosts file, you need your local ip (127.0.0.1), your domainname (if you have one), and your hostname.

If you only have a hostname, then

Code:

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127.0.0.1    localhost

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should be enough. I have a small home network, so I add all of my computers on the LAN into the host file, so that I can use the hostnames of them instead of ip addresses.

Thanks thats done the trick.