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Date:      Thu, 16 Oct 1997 23:12:11 -0000 (GMT)
From:      Chris Dillon <cdillon@tri-lakes.net>
To:        itojun@itojun.org
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Problem with Hylafax
Message-ID:  <XFMail.971016231712.cdillon@tri-lakes.net>
In-Reply-To: <24451.877061212@coconut.itojun.org>

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On 17-Oct-97 itojun@itojun.org wrote:
>
>>This is correct, however, i don't have a DNS server setup on this
>machine,
>>nor does my ISP have any clue in hell about DNS, (try and reverse my
>usual
>>dialup address, 207.3.81.149, using any DNS server in the world... then
>use
>>one of theirs, such as 207.3.81.5... I've bugged them about this for
>ages
>>since it prevents me from connecting to sites who require reverse
>lookups
>>to work) I DO have a hostname set with /bin/hostname
>(wyze.tri-lakes.net). 
>>This, however, was not a problem previously.  Hylafax worked fine some
>time
>>ago even with my 'bogus' hostname.
>
>       It should be fine if you have /etc/hosts properly set...
>       how about /etc/host.conf?  is it properly set?

In my /etc/hosts:

127.0.0.1               localhost wyze wyze.tri-lakes.net

/etc/host.conf order is:

bind
hosts

Tried reversing the order.. No help.

>>Someone did suggest that bash was the
>>culprit, and so I am reinstalling Hylafax (already removed it again..
>might
>>as well test a patch while I'm at it) with its dependancy for bash1
>>changed to bash2.
>>Hmmm.. no luck with bash2 there. Still does a SIGSEGV.. Now to see if
>maybe
>>I can fix that problem and supply a patch. :-)
>
>       bash will only be used at the installation(more exactly,
"configure")
>       time, so this won't change the behavior much.
>
>itojun

I didn't think it would, but it was worth the try anyway.

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