Re: [tlug] emacs requiring network connection

["Hector Akamine" <akamine@example.com>]

On 5/10/07, Josh Glover <jmglov@example.com> wrote:
> On 09/05/07, Hector Akamine <akamine@example.com> wrote:
>
> > After adding the following line to the /etc/hosts file, I was able to start
> > emacs without requiring to be connected to the network:
> >
> > 127.0.0.1       myhostname      localhost.localdomain   localhost
>
> Ah yes. Not having a name for 127.0.0.1 in /etc/hosts will likely
> cause issues for any number of programs.
>
> Which distro are you running that did not populate this by default?

Fedora Core 6. The default /etc/hosts file contains the following entry:
::1   myhostname     localhost.localdomain   localhost

(which I think is for IPv6?), but didn't include an entry with 127.0.0.1

Hector