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09-28-2005, 11:04 PM	#16
auji LQ Newbie Registered: Jul 2004 Distribution: RedHat Posts: 9 Original Poster Rep:	fixed Did a fresh install and it works. Sure wish I had knowen a more direct way to have corrected the problem of not resolving entries in etc/hosts.

09-29-2005, 02:39 PM	#17
david_ross Moderator Registered: Mar 2003 Location: Scotland Distribution: Slackware, RedHat, Debian Posts: 12,047 Rep:	If it was after a series of library changes then running ldconfig to update your shared library links may have helped.

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