On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 07:43:15PM +0200, Buchan Milne wrote: > Sorry, just a query here, did you run 'host `localhost`', or 'host > `hostname`'. > > If 'host `hostname`' resolves, GNOME should work. If it does not, GNOME > should complain.
That's not really true. Again the host command *ONLY* queries nameservers. It does not pay any attention to the /etc/hosts file. So more accurately if: getent hosts `hostname` spits out an IP then GNOME will work. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org "America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion only of her own." -- John Quincy Adams, July 4th, 1821
