On Tue, Sep 26, 2000 at 07:40:23PM -0700, Derryl Madtha wrote:
>hi all,
> while booting my linux serv the httpd service does
>not start. It gives an error saying
> httpd: cannot dertermine local host name.
> httpd: Use the ServerName Directive to set it
>manually.
Change the line for localhost in /etc/hosts file as follows :
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
If you have a Network Card then put your IP and hostname in the following format :
<IP> <hostname.domain name> <hostname>
[ of course don't put <> signs above :-) ]
Regards
Rajesh
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