[oclug]lpd /sendmail address problems

[Joe Burpee]

On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 07:20:49PM -0500, Linux Student wrote:
> My hostname is currently localhost.localdomain as indicated in the 
> /etc/hosts file.  At boot time lpd says the IP address for 'localhost' 
> is not available, lpd dies.
 
> If I change the /etc/hosts file so the hostname reads simply localhost, 
> lpd is happy.  This however seems to cause sendmail to be unable to 
> resolve the address and it takes several minutes for sendmail to think 
> before it successfully starts.
 
You can put alternate names in /etc/hosts, e.g.

127.0.0.1	localhost.localdomain	localhost

Joe

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