a small problem with /etc/hosts in FreeBSD 6.2

2007-09-12 Thread Pollywog
in my hosts file, I have a line that looks like this: ::1localhost localhost.mydomain.com Is this line for IPv6 or is there some other reason for its presence? It causes occasional problems, so I commented it out and I kept a similar line that points to 127.0.0.1 An

Re: a small problem with /etc/hosts in FreeBSD 6.2

2007-09-12 Thread Wojciech Puchar
in my hosts file, I have a line that looks like this: ::1localhost localhost.mydomain.com Is this line for IPv6 or is there some other reason for its presence? It causes occasional problems, so I commented it out and I kept a similar line that points to 127.0.0.1 there

Re: a small problem with /etc/hosts in FreeBSD 6.2

2007-09-12 Thread Pollywog
On Wednesday 12 September 2007 15:47:15 Wojciech Puchar wrote: in my hosts file, I have a line that looks like this: ::1localhost localhost.mydomain.com Is this line for IPv6 or is there some other reason for its presence? It causes occasional problems, so I

Re: a small problem with /etc/hosts in FreeBSD 6.2

2007-09-12 Thread Derek Ragona
At 11:08 AM 9/12/2007, Pollywog wrote: On Wednesday 12 September 2007 15:47:15 Wojciech Puchar wrote: in my hosts file, I have a line that looks like this: ::1localhost localhost.mydomain.com Is this line for IPv6 or is there some other reason for its presence? It

Re: a small problem with /etc/hosts in FreeBSD 6.2

2007-09-12 Thread Pollywog
On Wednesday 12 September 2007 16:10:54 Derek Ragona wrote: Are you running ipv6? If not just comment that line out. I am not running ipv6 and I thought I did not need that line, so I have commented it out. thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: a small problem with /etc/hosts in FreeBSD 6.2

2007-09-12 Thread RW
On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 15:33:24 + Pollywog [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: in my hosts file, I have a line that looks like this: ::1localhost localhost.mydomain.com Is this line for IPv6 or is there some other reason for its presence? It causes occasional problems, so I

Small problem upgrading older machine

2004-03-01 Thread stan
I'm upgrading a bunch of older machines *some as far back as 4.2). First let me say a bing THANKS YOU for all the hard work the release engineering team does to make this work as well as it does. Now, let me point out a small problem. When I got to the make installworld step, I was politely

Re: Small problem upgrading older machine

2004-03-01 Thread stan
On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 09:49:12AM -0500, stan wrote: I'm upgrading a bunch of older machines *some as far back as 4.2). First let me say a bing THANKS YOU for all the hard work the release engineering team does to make this work as well as it does. Now, let me point out a small problem

Re: small problem

2003-10-04 Thread Shantanoo Mahajan
+-- Abhijeet [freebsd] [03-10-03 19:42 IST]: | hi all, | i want to make a duplicate copy of a server hard disk so that i get a | reserver hdd with all settings if my present hdd fails. please tell me a | way so that i can do this job very fast. i won't linke to make | reinstall . please help

small problem

2003-10-03 Thread Abhijeet
hi all, i want to make a duplicate copy of a server hard disk so that i get a reserver hdd with all settings if my present hdd fails. please tell me a way so that i can do this job very fast. i won't linke to make reinstall . please help me fast. i have not tried using dd , will it work