Timothy Murphy <gayleard <at> eircom.net> writes: > ... > [tim <at> helen ~]$ cat /etc/hosts.conf > cat: /etc/hosts.conf: No such file or directory > You mistyped it ... Make sure you have that right (if not, let me know). $ cat /etc/host.conf multi on order hosts,bind I will take a look at the remainig things. JB