On Saturday 23 May 2009 21:12:15 sundar mahadevan wrote:
1) I recently removed the localhost entry in /etc/hosts file Does it have any impact on this issue.
No, but it will have an impact on just about everything else. Put it back! Why on earth would you ever even think about removing that? You now have a broken system
2) And btw, where does hostname on shell prompt retrieve its value from?
The kernel. As returned by the gethostname() system call. Your problem means that you have changed your configuration but not yet told the system about it. Update the info by hostname <host name you want to use> For your example, you would use hostname sunny2 Anders -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org