From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DxDBN-0004yN-K6 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 00:20:30 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6Q0Ja1U013413; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 00:19:36 GMT Received: from fep7.cogeco.net (smtp.cogeco.net [216.221.81.25]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j6Q0G6hI006571 for ; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 00:16:07 GMT Received: from [192.168.1.100] (d36-7-237.home1.cgocable.net [24.36.7.237]) by fep7.cogeco.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1ECD5188C for ; Mon, 25 Jul 2005 20:16:09 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <42E580CA.2090505@interlynx.net> Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2005 20:16:10 -0400 From: "C.Beamer" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Messages on boot References: <42E568B1.4030605@interlynx.net> <20050725232002.GB22244@princeton.edu> In-Reply-To: <20050725232002.GB22244@princeton.edu> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.92.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: e9ae5dcf-e82f-4b05-b606-358017d97547 X-Archives-Hash: 6000a0de2db6aa0dc20513c0ebd8863c Willie Wong wrote: >On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 06:33:21PM -0400, C.Beamer wrote: > > >>Hi All, >> >>The first time I did a hard drive boot into Gentoon, I noticed two >>messages as follows: >> >>One said the make sure that the host name in /etc was set to a valid >>host name. >> >>Well, in /etc, I have a file named hosts and when I look at that, it >>says that the host is localhost with the ip address of 127.0.0.1, which >>is correct for local host. Should there be another host name in there? >> >> > >The message means for you to set the hostname in /etc/conf.d/hostname >(or /etc/hostname if you are using a rather old baselayout). > > >W > > > > I don't have a /etc/hostname file, I just have a hosts file. Did I do something wrong? My computer is a stand alone, but I connect to the internet via cable modem. Regards, Colleen -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list