Bill Campbell wrote: > 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 > I had a similar problem using OpenVZ images, installed from kickstart - almost like it's leaving some stuff out by default. So I ended up creating the file manually and adding it to the kickstart file to be copied over. -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers Check out my technical blog, http://blog.softdux.com for Linux or other technical stuff