> 
> > give your machine a name =) (i.e. snow.cris.com)
> > the address "snow.cris.com" might not work from outside your machine, but
> > you can make it work internally by putting this line in your /etc/hosts
> > file:
> > 
> > 127.0.0.1  snow snow.cris.com
> > 
> > and restart. this should work fine :)
> 
> You might run into trouble if that's not:
> 
> 127.0.0.1  localhost snow snow.cris.com
>            ^^^^^^^^^
> 
> I think that you might need the localhost part in there, but I could be 
> wrong.

I think you're exactly right. You need to have localhost defined.
I'd also suggest localhost.domain.name, or

127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.cris.com snow snow.cris.com

Take care,

Bill