Subject: Re: How to set hostname in YDL 2.1?
From: Sean O. Denney (sdenney@cise.ufl.edu)
Date: Sun Mar 03 2002 - 06:47:03 MST
Your /etc/hosts file should look like this:
127.0.0.1 sirius.localdomain localhost
your.real.ip.addr sirius.localdomain sirius
--- Sean
On Sun, 3 Mar 2002, Ren[ISO-8859-1] é Bourion wrote:
> I would like to join this thread as I just ran into a similar problem.
> My printer (Epson 740) used to work correctly; it is still accessible
> directly through /dev/usb/lp0.
>
> As it happened, I had to make some adjustments to make sendmail start
> smoothly (apparently a well-known problem), and now, when I try to use lpr,
> this is what I get:
>
> [root@sirius /root]# lpr /etc/fstab
> Status Information:
> sending job 'root@sirius+978' to lp@localhost
> connecting to 'localhost', attempt 1
> connected to 'localhost'
> requesting printer lp@localhost
> job 'root@sirius+978' transfer to lp@localhost failed
> error 'link error 253' with ack 'ACK_RETRY'
> sending str '^Blp' to lp@localhost
> error msg: 'lp: spooling disabled'
> [root@sirius /root]#
>
> The name "localhost" is still present in my /etc/hosts file:
>
> 127.0.0.1 sirius sirius.localdomain
> 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain
>
> Can someone explain what the message means? What is lp@localhost? What
> should I change?
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