Ok, I know it's bad practice to reply to ones own messages but I've
discovered the problem and remedied it to my needs. I just thought I'd
better ask why I had to.
The program was failing when requesting "localhost" from it's networking
components. I investigated and found that localhost was not being
returned properly. When running fedora my hostname was automatically set
by dhcp and was:
lion-196.d
and my domain was:
@port.ac.uk
The program ran fine and discovered the hostname as above. Under Suse
though the hostname was truncated to:
lion-196
That missing ".d" seems to make all the difference. As the app could not
discover it. I tried setting the correct name using YaST but the GUI
would not let me enter the correct one. It would not permit "."
(period). Is this a bug? Or are "." (periods) not allowed?
If they are not allowed that is something I'll have to take up with the
Uni admins.
Long story short. I set my host name to something completely different
with the same domain and now it seems to work fine. Wierd.
Any pointers would be apprieciated.
--
Adam Cooper