buggered localhost

[Joel Hammer]

Make sure /etc/hosts wasn't changed during the configuration of your modem.

Joel

On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 04:30:57PM -0700, 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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