On Sun, 2002-12-29 at 01:17, David Smith wrote:
> I joined this group on 14 December, but have yet to see any messages. Is
> anyone there?
Yes, but this is a very quiet list. Very few new users these days, so
very few problems to solve.
> I have recently started using my (registered) copy of Genesis, and, although
> almost everything seems to work perfectly, upon connection Genesis always
> warns that it "could not obtain the host name for this machine". I have tried
> many different tweaks to the prefs but have not stumbled upon the correct one
> to prevent appearance of this message. What am I missing?
Either enter hostname in Genesis Prefs in the "Interface/Resolv" tab,
or, as I did, create the EnvVar HOSTNAME, either in User-StartUp, r by
writing it to ENVARC: Like you, with a previous ISP, I had the same
problem. Nothing "broke" as a result of the `error' but it was an
annoyance.
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