On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, Nerd C wrote:

> To Linux fans,
> When I boot RHL6.0 I get a message,
> Starting httpd: cannot determine local hostname
> Use Servername to set the directive manually.   [FAILED}
>
> When I start Gnome I get the message,
> hostname: Hostname lookup FAILURE.
> It may be possible to correct the problem by adding

add the hostname to the file /etc/HOSTNAME

and the /etc/host should contain
127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain

> localhost.localdomain to the file /etc/hosts
>
>
> This problem probably occured after I tried to connect to the
> internet using Linux.

i dont think so, you connect to internet and loose your hostname!!

> Please Advise.
> 
> Chrisil.
> 


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