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From: ed@mtxinu.UUCP (Ed Gould)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: sendmail problem
Message-ID: <193@mtxinu.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 28-Dec-84 21:21:44 EST
Article-I.D.: mtxinu.193
Posted: Fri Dec 28 21:21:44 1984
Date-Received: Mon, 31-Dec-84 02:12:58 EST
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Organization: mt Xinu, Berkeley, CA
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> After searching numerious hours I decided to show my weakness and to ask
> help for my following bug:
> 
> 	Cannot open /dev/console: Bad filenumber
> 
> 	biff y does not work anymore
> 
> This problem occured after shuffeling with the hostname/uucpname.

These both come from not being able to find the address of the local
machine from the hostname file.  If you're not on a network, then
what's being used is the "loopback" net where your address is
127.0.0.0

-- 
Ed Gould
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