[wplug] apache not working

Matthew Danish mdanish at andrew.cmu.edu
Wed Apr 30 00:20:58 EDT 2003


On Tue, Apr 29, 2003 at 08:08:41PM -0700, Elwin Green wrote:
> --- Matthew Danish <mdanish at andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
> > See /var/log/apache/, particularly error.log.
> 
> And it says:
> [alert] mod_unique_id: unable to gethostbyname
> ("486a")
> 
> Which, in my current state of knowledge, is the
> dynamic equivalent of:
> [alert] blah blah blah
> 
> Well, not quite. I do at least get the sense that I
> should include this info:
> In /etc/hostname, the machine is identified as 486a.
> In /etc/hosts, it is listed as 486a.dgard.net
> 

Can you resolve `486a' with a command like ping? or host?

If not, then you need to add it to the /etc/hosts file, next to
`486a.dgard.net'.

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