Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 12:11:13 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Rick Knebel <rknebel@csrlink.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fetchmail Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980128121049.18405F-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19980126130909.006f145c@mail.csrlink.net>
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On Mon, 26 Jan 1998, Rick Knebel wrote: > Hi, > Whenever I try to use the fetchmail that came with freebsd 2.2.5 I get the > error message gethostbyname failed. > I get the same message whenever I use the screensaver lock in afterstep. If > I use the version of fetchmail that came with 2.2.2 everything works fine. > Does this make sense to anyone? gethostbyname() is a function used to do nameserver lookups. Check your nameserver setup in /etc/resolv.conf. 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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