buggered localhost

[Andrew Mathews]

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Robert L. Hemus wrote:
| All of my helpful comrades I need help, again.
| I've got 2 partitions, a "using one" and a "learning one".  The
| "learning" one was working fine until I tried to use KDE's Network
| Configuration to set up the modem instead of the Kppp internet dial up
| tool.  After I tried the Network thing I (I think that's how it
| happened) when I try to print I get this Message Get_local_host:
| hostname 'localhost' bad.  But at the beginning of a line it is this;
| [bobhemus at localhost bobhemus]$
|
| Anybody know what I might have done or how to fix it.  I can connect to
| my server, that's how I'm sending this.
|
| I'm running RH7.3.  Thank you for your help.
| Bob
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I would guess that at some point in the modem configuration you you told
it to obtain it's hostname from the remote dialup host. It changed it
and now the printer config doesn't match anymore.

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