> I found the solution to the problem I had with an Oracle 10g > installation. By reading the full install manual for Oracle 10g for > Linux x86-64, (several hundred pages, instead of the 20 or so pages for > a quick install), I found that it seemed to need an entry in the > /etc/hosts file.
> I didn't have one. It is common, though not required, that statically addressed hosts have their own address in /etc/hosts, with the hostname statically configured somewhere else. It is also common, though not required, that servers be statically addressed. (snip) > I have a documentation folder for each Linux image I've created. I > don't have any entries on me creating entries in the 'hosts' file. Where is the hosts own IP address configured? > Is entries in the /etc/hosts file, really required? > Or is it "older" technology, that normally is replaced by some other > function? Well, not until the network is running. I do remember one system that tried to start NFS before DNS, with the solution being to change the order that they were started. Normally at least a secondary nameserver should be nearby, if not local. Is a network access faster or slower than a disk access? -- glen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
