Cups problem

[david walcroft]

Craig White wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 10:29 +1000, david walcroft wrote:
>   
>> Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
>>     
>>> Tim wrote:
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> One opens a web browser, and tries getting the local CUPS website to
>>>> show, either by browsing to http://localhost:631 or http://127.0.0.1:631
>>>> (they're the same thing).
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> Unless he fixed his /etc/hosts file, they may not the same thing. He
>>> had two entries for localhost, with two different IP addresses. I
>>> think it uses the first match, but I am not sure. It wounder if the
>>> problem is that CUPS is configured to only allow administrator
>>> logins from 127.0.0.1, but because of the hosts problem, he is
>>> connecting on the 192.168.x.x address. (I don't remember the IP
>>> address.)
>>>
>>> I have been skipping a lot of the messages in this thread because
>>> they couldn't be bothered to trim their replies... So this may have
>>> been fixed by now.
>>>
>>> Mikkel
>>>   
>>>       
>> My /etc/hosts file.
>>
>> # Do not remove the following line, or various programs
>> # that require network functionality will fail.
>> #
>> 127.0.0.1       localhost.localdomain   
>> localhost                                                                           
>>
>> 192.168.0.1     reddwarf.localdomain    reddwarf
>>     
> ----
> the line all by itself that says localhost...is that really on a line
> all by itself or is it actually on the line that starts 127.0.0.1 and
> the e-mail wrapped it onto the next line?
>
> Craig
>
>   
It appears that the emailer wrapped the line.

    david