Subject: Re: sup stopped working with 1.5
To: Dominic Jones <dominicj@cs.utah.edu>
From: Frederick Bruckman <fb@enteract.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 05/14/2001 12:20:41
On Mon, 14 May 2001, Dominic Jones wrote:
> My sup configuration appears to be the same (I copied my
> coll.list file over to my new /etc). However, I'm now getting a message:
>
> SUP: Can't find my host entry 'anya' {anya is my machine's name}
>
> Any suggestions? I've read the man page, and haven't seen anything
> I've forgotten. Again, my coll.list file is identical to the one I used
> under 1.4.1. I'm using
>
> sup -s -v
Sup makes an attempt to cannonize the host names involved, appartantly
so that it can treat collections on the localhost differently. The
bottom line is, it assumes that "hostname" is set an FQDN that can be
looked up by the resolver. If you can't do that because you get an IP
ADDR dynamically, and if you're not running a supserver, you can trick
"sup" by adding "anya" to /etc/hosts:
127.0.0.1 localhost anya
Frederick