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From: bennett@sgi.com (Jim Bennett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: NeWS can't find host information for "cinnamon"
Keywords: /bin/news_server
Message-ID: <1990Sep11.001121.4449@odin.corp.sgi.com>
Date: 11 Sep 90 00:11:21 GMT
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In article <2356@idunno.Princeton.EDU> sullivan@math.Princeton.EDU (John M. Sullivan) writes:

>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"

There was a problem in 3.2 that had these symptoms.  Check in the
the directory /usr/etc/yp for a file called "resolv.conf" (spelling?).
If it exists, delete it and reboot.  The NeWS server should now come up.

This problem is fixed in 3.3.

Jim Bennett			(bennett@esd.sgi.com)