Opened 22 years ago

Closed 22 years ago

#515 closed defect (fixed)

Setup basic networking at start of chapter 6

Reported by: gerard@… Owned by: winkie@…
Priority: high Milestone:
Component: Book Version: CVS
Severity: normal Keywords:
Cc:

Description

Some packages like Perl benefit from having at least an /etc/hosts file present. After we upgrade to inetutils (to replace netkit-base) and use IANA's version of the /etc/services file, also create /etc/hosts just containing the 127.0.0.1 entry. Chapter 7 will still allow readers to further modify this file and add NIC IP addresses to it.

The alternative is creating /etc/hosts during the Perl installation which won't look great. Just the wrong place to setup networking.

Change History (3)

comment:1 by timothy@…, 22 years ago

Owner: changed from lfs-book@… to timothy@…

comment:2 by timothy@…, 22 years ago

Owner: changed from timothy@… to winkie@…

Apparently Zack has this one as well..

comment:3 by timothy@…, 22 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed

Taken care of by Zack.

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