On Mon, Jul 21, 2008, Jim Perrin wrote: >On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 9:20 PM, Bill Campbell <centos at celestial.com> wrote: >> Is there any reason why /etc/hosts would be missing the line, >> 127.0.0.1 localhost? > >Nope. It's there by default in some form or another. > >By default, it usually looks like this -> > >127.0.0.1 installname localhost.localdomain localhost >::1 localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6 > >If you don't have anything like this in your /etc/hosts, you either >need to find a mirror and begin yelling at responsible parties, or >stalk whomever else has root on this particular machine. I guess I could yell at myself as I'm doing kickstart installs from a local mirror. I found the same thing on two CentOS 5.1 installs here, one on a VMware VM, the other on real iron. The wierd thing is that the base VMware VM I have that I copy to create new VMs looks OK. Now I'm going to have to poke around to see what's causing this line to be deleted. Bill -- INTERNET: bill at celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice: (206) 236-1676 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820 Fax: (206) 232-9186 The Income Tax has made more Liars out of American people than Golf has. Will Rogers