Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1473 mails)

[alexm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (alexm)]

Hi,

On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Claudio E. Elicker wrote:
> But when I try to read a man page, for instance the apropos man page,
> 	http://yeh1.parsec:6711/man?=apropos&=1
> there is the following error message:
> 	"Netscape is unable to locate server yeh1.parsec:6711."
> 
> yeh1.parsec is my hostname.
> 
> The same list of man pages is accessed OK in
> 	http://yeh1.parsec/doc/susehilf/man_e/i.0.html
> so I think that the server yeh1.parsec is OK.
> 
> What I'm doing wrong? How can I read the man pages from 'hilfe'?  What
> means 6711?

this sounds more like a name resolution problem...
but it is worth checking:
6711 is the port number for http-rman
run "netstat -an | more" and see if your machine is listening on this port
if not --> correct /etc/services and /etc/inetd.conf files and then:
# killall -HUP inetd
and try it again

-scoobeedoo

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