[huskerlug] Re: OpanOffice / hostname issue

ok, sorry about the spam, but it's working now.. and I
didn't change anythnig... I kept trying it, and it
finally got past that loading contacts list thing, and
now it works perfectly.. prints and everything... I
don't know if I wana ask why.. LOL.. Thanks for the
help though Carl!
Paul Andrews
--- Carl Lundstedt <clundst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Well, I'll ask the obvious first, in your /etc/host
> file,  is there a
> line like
> 127.0.0.1       localhost.localdomain   localhost
> or
> 10.0.xxxx     localhost
> 
> If so, is your network setup to first look at the
> hosts file, THEN the
> dns server?  (I'm not certain how to configure this
> besides using a
> utility such as linuxconf.)
> 
> Carl Lundstedt
> UNL
> 
> On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 12:51, Paul Andrews wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I just installed OpenOffice on my redhat 7.2
> machine,
> > and when I try to run ./soffice it starts to run
> just
> > fine, asking for a contact list from mozilla and
> all,
> > but after a few windows of these questions,
> openoffice
> > suddenly exits...  on my terminal window there's
> this
> > message..
> > 
> > [pandrew@pcompl OpenOffice.org1.0.2]$ ./soffice 
> > Get_local_host: 'localhost' IP address not
> available!
> > Aborted
> > [pandrew@pcompl OpenOffice.org1.0.2]$ 
> > 
> > So, hopefully it's as simple as typing "hostname
> -i
> > 10.0.0.xxx" but that doesn't work iether.. ahy
> > solutions?
> > Thanks, 
> > Paul Andrews
> > 
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