Hostname?

banana989 · 2005-03-11 04:47:45

I just put on Xfce4 to my new arch install and I get an error when I run startxfce4.

Basically it's "Could not find internet address for hostname <myhostname>"

How the heck do I fix this?

My rc.conf sets my hostname to bsapt
I've tried two configurations with my hosts file:

127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
AND
127.0.0.1 archlinux.bsapt localhost

when I start X the console also says "can't find hostname" or something similar..

thoughts ?

stonecrest · 2005-03-11 05:41:48

127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain bsapt

jerem · 2005-03-11 08:26:30

127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain  localhost    bsapt whatever   and_so_on

banana989 · 2005-03-11 19:28:45

so the trailing names are alternate names for my hostname ?

jerem · 2005-03-11 20:17:57

Yes.

banana989 · 2005-03-13 04:19:53

thanks! this is one of the most helpful linux forums around !

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