On Friday 19 March 2004 14:47, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Mar 2004, Ed Skinner wrote:
> >      The problem also manifested itself as certain X programs that took
> > an inordinately long time (some multiple of 2 minutes, again) to launch.
> >
> > I've included the "slow" and "fast" contents below but, basically, the
> > answer was to add ".localdomain" to all the entries (in my local domain).
>
> I don't think the problem is in your hosts file, but in whatever place
> where you have chose to use ".localdomain" as part of the hostnames.
>
>    Jeremy C. Reed
>    http://bsd.reedmedia.net/


     I haven't *intentionally* coded a ".localdomain" anywhere that I can 
think of but perhaps it's something that is preconfigured (by Red Hat?) into 
the distribution.


-- 
Ed Skinner, ed@flat5.net, http://www.flat5.net/

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