At 6:50 PM +0100 7/10/98, Patrick Welche wrote:
>Dave Millen wrote:
>>
>> Salutations,
>>
>> Can anyone tell me why I get the message
>>
>>     'Can't find my host entry'
>
>Try "hostname your_hostname"
>
>Cheers,
>
>Patrick

This exact thing bit me, and it took me forever, until I finally looked at
the source for sup, to figure it out.

Does anyone agree that a different error message would be more informative?

The problem is that the error message, in context, suggests that the
problem is in the sup host, which isn't the case.

Brad

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