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From: arc@thyme.wpd.sgi.com (Andrew Cherenson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: NeWS can't find host information for "cinnamon"
Keywords: /bin/news_server
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Date: 11 Sep 90 02:02:42 GMT
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In article <1990Sep11.001121.4449@odin.corp.sgi.com> bennett@sgi.com (Jim Bennett) writes:
>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?).

It's /usr/etc/resolv.conf.

>If it exists, delete it and reboot.  The NeWS server should now come up.

Of course, if you delete it, NeWS and every other network application
will resolve hostnames from /etc/hosts (assuming YP/NIS isn't running).
(NeWS doesn't use YP.)

>This problem is fixed in 3.3.

IRIX 3.3 is much more robust when there are name server problems.