Re: Got GNOME to start by changing /etc/hosts file

[Sam Vilain <sam hydro gen nz>]

James Ramsey <jjramsey_6x9eq42@yahoo.com> writes:

> > domain name so in your case it should look (something) like this:
> > 127.0.0.1	localhost	jjlinux
> No, no, no. Using "jjlinux.jwramsey" works for me. What was in its
> place before was "localhost.localdomain"

I think all that is important is that whatever the "nodename" field of
a uname(2) call returns is accessible; ie

ping `uname -n`

Should work.  If it doesn't, I wouldn't consider the host be in a sane
state and wouldn't blame the applications for not working :-)
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