Subject: Re: sup
To: Guy Santiglia <fredfl2@soback.kornet21.net>
From: Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 02/24/1999 16:54:22
Guy Santiglia wrote:
> 
> 
>   I'm having a hell of a time getting sup to work.  I want to use it to
> update my pkgsrc.  Where is an easy to understand how to?  Or can some one
> email me a copy of there working supfile?  Here is the message I get 
> when I try to sup my pkgsrc:
> 
> fredfl2: /home/fredfl2 # sup -a supfile
> SUP 8.26 (4.3 BSD) for file supfile at Feb 24 23:09:03
> SUP: Can't find my host entry

That often means that your hostname isn't set. Try
hostname [name-of-host]
and maybe create /etc/myname containing it for next reboot.

Cheers,

Patrick