Problem with Gnome recognizing default local host when starting as user in korn

["stuart w" <nartprod hotmail com>]

Hi,
I am running redhat 7.3.  my localhost is the default that came with the 
install
(ie file contents of /etc/hosts is : 127.0.0.1    localhost.localdomain    
localhost)

When I am a SU, i can ping my localhost successfully and when i bring up 
gnome(startx)
the localhost is read properly and runs without errors.

if I am logged in as a user, i am in a korn shell, i cannot ping local host 
(the file /etc/hosts hasn't
changed) and when I start gnome(startx) i get the message "localhost not 
found, please correct the problem
in the /etc/hosts file.

Any ideas?
-stuart
stuart nartprod com

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