localhost has no address

[djmcke]

I figure out my problem.  Earlier today I wrote:

> Using Fedora Core 4 test 1, my loopback interface has no address.
> ifconfig says:
> 
> lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
>           UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
>           RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>           RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
> 
> This has caused a few things not to work.
> Is this some new security thing?

I added 

    IPADDR=127.0.0.1

to /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-lo
and when I did "ifdown lo" and "ifup lo" it had an address - yipee.
The solution actually seens kinda obvious.  Perhaps this should be
in the file that's installed.



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