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Date:      Thu, 30 Oct 1997 11:17:50 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Michael Alwan <mjalwan@rma.edu>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvsup can't get own host name
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.971030111622.17844G-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.971029224306.mjalwan@rma.edu>

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On Wed, 29 Oct 1997, Michael Alwan wrote:

> I'm trying out cvsup again (since March), with the modula-3-lib-3.6.tgz and
> cvsup-15.1 packages. (Apparently I can't build the cvsup-15.2 port without a
> build directory for the modula port). I'm running up against the same problem as
> before. The command "cvsup standard-supfile" quits after 1 second with this
> message:
> 
> "Cannot get IP address of my own host -- is its hostname correct?"

What does 

$ host `hostname` 

report?  This is what cvsup's trying to do and is running into opposition.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major





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