On Friday 27 December 2002 10:14, Dennis McDonald wrote:
> Good Morning
> I have recently upgrade to RH8 after using 7.1. I cannot get my printer
> to work. I get an error message
>
> Get_local_host: hostname 'x1-6-00-01-29-16-3b-d0' bad
>
> when trying lp abc. I get the same message when using the redhat printer
> configuration tool. This hostname looks similar to the output of
> ifconfig for the HW addr.
>
> [Dennis@x1-6-00-01-29-16-3b-d0 test2]$ /sbin/ifconfig
> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:01:29:16:3B:D0
> inet addr:65.35.242.254 Bcast:255.255.255.255
> Mask:255.255.248.0
>
> Its also in the header of my Konsole window and in my prompt.
> I have changed the printer perms to default accept, but no help
> Where do I go to change the setting to fix this?
> Thanks
> Dennis
Your machine cannot resolve itself. Do this:
# echo "127.0.0.1 x1-6-00-01-29-16-3b-d0" >> /etc/hosts
or, more specifically:
# echo 127.0.0.1 `hostname` >> /etc/hosts
This will append a line to your /etc/hosts file.
The "correct" fix for this is to force your DHCP client (pump, dhcpcd, or
dhclient) NOT to set your hostname based on the suggested name provided by
the RoadRunner DHCP server. Moreover, setting your hostname to resolve to
127.0.0.1 tends to occasionally break other things like mail. Unfortunately,
then you're a DHCP client, it's something you learn to deal with.
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