Re: working ppp on 5.1, not on 6.0 (??)

[Alan Mead <adm ipat com>]

At 05:29 PM 1/5/00 -0500, seansdad foto infi net wrote:

>something amiss. When in xterm I should be able to start (it worked before
>I goofed) network config. by typing netcfg at the prompt. It doesnt happen.
>I get errors that have something todo with python. I'll include them here,
>but I am gonna hate typing all this in
>
> errors follow:
>File "/usr/lib/rhs/netcfg/netcfg.py", line 1943 in ? win =

I would be tempted to fire up RPM, identify the package owning this file,
and do a verify on it.

>     raise BadFile, 'Malformed /etc/hosts file'               
>Conf.BadFile: Malformed /etc/hosts/ file                  {well, these last
 
What is the format of these files?  They should be something like:

[amead hera amead]$ cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1       localhost       localhost.localdomain
192.168.0.1  hera.ipat.com    hera


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