Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-m17n (19 mails)

[Wolfgang Slany <wsi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 23 Jul 2002, Mike Fabian wrote:
> Wolfgang Slany <wsi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Mike Fabian wrote:
> >> I guess you had a space behind either "localhost" or "unix".  This is
> >> already enough to prevent access. Canna is *very* picky about the
> >> syntax of /etc/hosts.canna.
> >
> > But how should the space have been inserted? I did not touch the
> > /etc/hosts* files and it had worked the previous day.
>
> I thought that you had edited the /etc/hosts.canna file because you wrote:
>
> > What seemed to have helped finally on June 12 was to insert "unix"
> > into the /etc/hosts file somewhere together with localhost.
>
> The default /etc/hosts.canna file which comes with the SuSE canna
> package contains the two lines
>
>     localhost
>     unix
>
> i.e. if "unix" was not there and you had to insert it, it looks like
> you changed the default manually. When editing it is of course easy
> to accidentally insert an additional space somewhere.

I never edited /etc/hosts.canna, I only edited /etc/hosts, and this on
June 12, after which canna worked for almost a month before it got its
problem again, without me editing /etc/hosts or /etc/hosts.canna after
June 12. So there was no spurious space in /etc/hosts.canna at anytime.

Mysterious ...

Best regards, Wolfgang