On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, Brad Salai wrote:

> At 4:54 PM +0000 2/24/99, Patrick Welche wrote:
> >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.


 Thanks for all your responses to my question.

  Now what exactly should be in that /etc/myname?  I named my local
host fredfl2, using the hostname command.  I made a file "/etc/myname"
and put one line in it:

fredfl2

I feel almost certain that there is more to it than that, because I still
get the same error message when I try to sup.  

  Where is a good place for a beginner to read about hosts and hostnames,
and domain names and such.

   thanks,
             Guy


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Guy Santiglia  Quadra 610, NetBSD 1.3.3!
South Korea
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