From: Duane Attaway (dattaway@attaway.net)
Date: 08/17/02


Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2002 12:25:48 -0500
From: Duane Attaway <dattaway@attaway.net>
Subject: Re: printing to HP DJ 660 w/RH7.3
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0208171237040.3611-100000@attaway.net>


> I tried service lpd start and received the following:
>
> Starting lpd: 2002-08-17-12:12:02.413 linalt Get_local_host: 'localhost' IP
> address not available!

Type this command and if...

cat /etc/hosts | grep localhost

...returns nothing, do this to include localhost:

echo "127.0.0.1 localhost" >> /etc/hosts

...and restart the lpd services