host.conf problem

[Fred Grant]

On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 18:18, Bob McClure Jr wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 06:06:20PM -0500, Fred Grant wrote:
> > On log-in, I periodically and sporadically get a message that the system
> > can't determine the host for Internet use.  When I check the host.conf
> > folder it is missing the "localhost.localdomain" info.
> 
> That does not compute.  /etc/host.conf (a file, not a folder) normally
> contains
> 
>   order hosts,bind
> 
> and that's all.  Perhaps you're thinking of /etc/hosts, which should
> have something like (mine as an example):
> 
> 127.0.0.1       localhost.localdomain   localhost
> 192.168.2.2     bobcat.bobcatos.com     bobcat
> 
> > I can fix it by (as root) copying hosts.bak to this folder but it is
> > kind of a pain.
> > 
> > Any ideas as to why this periodically drops out?  I'm using FC2.
> > 
> > Thanks
> 
> Cheers,
You are right Bob, it's /etc/hosts that loses the localhost.localdomain
info.  I wonder if I could incorporate  copying of this info into the
daily cron job?  Seems funny that the info periodically gets lost.