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From: sullivan@bean.princeton.edu (John M. Sullivan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: NeWS can't find host information for "cinnamon"
Keywords: /bin/news_server
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Date: 8 Sep 90 00:42:12 GMT
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Reply-To: sullivan@math.Princeton.EDU (John M. Sullivan)
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I was trying to put a new Iris on our network, and copied a bunch of
files over from one of our other machines to get yp set up right, etc.
yp does now seem to work, but somehow I broke NeWS.

If I log in on the console now (without NOGRAPHICS), I get a message
(too quickly to read it) about the window server dying with status 1.
If I run /bin/news_server by hand, it says:
NeWS can't find host information for "cinnamon"

The file /etc/hosts and the yp hosts database both contain proper entries
for cinnamon (128.112.16.70) and for localhost.  The networking is working
fine--nfs, yp, rlogin, ftp all are happy.

There doesn't seem to be a trace command on the iris like on the sun
to see what news_server is doing.  'strings' wasn't much help either.
Does anyone know what "host info" it is looking for where?

Thanks,
John Sullivan
sullivan@math.princeton.edu
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John M. Sullivan	Princeton Univ. Math Dept.  sullivan@math.princeton.edu