printing to HP DJ 660 w/RH7.3

Eric Rossiter rossiter at discoverynet.com
Sat Aug 17 17:39:59 CDT 2002


On Sat, 2002-08-17 at 12:39, Duane Attaway wrote:
> > 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
> 

Cool,

/etc/hosts had the localhost as localhost.rossiter.net

I changed it to just read localhost.  lpd starts with no errors now. 

But I still can't print.

Thanks Duane,
E




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