when i first installed the system (this am) i configured the printer with printtool and everything was fine.

later i installed apache and got IT going and now when i look at the printer on printtool or try to use it i get this message:

Error printing test page to queue lp


Error reason: Get_local_host: 'localhost' IP address not available!


What does all that mean and how do i fix it?

thx

What changes did you make to get apache working?

Did you change your /etc/hosts file? Does it have a line like "127.0.0.1 localhost"?

Maybe you set up DNS and didn't include an A record for 127.0.0.1? No zone for reverse lookup of 0.0.127?

Can you ping 'localhost'?

ok... i got it to work... this will be for any of you checking this thread out...

i opened /etc/hosts and i rembered that i had changed the default to the name i wanted... so what i needed to do was insert:

127.0.0.1 host.localhost.domain localhost
<and>
127.0.0.2 name.whatever.domain name

have BOTH of these in this file and in this way you can access (read only) your server by either name and see it as a public user would...

thnx for the help

I was haveing the same problem took me like 30min of looking on google for the answer i put the error message into googles search field and wala got tons of info to search thru...(thats my trick to find answers to problems)...anyways
getting this error message

Starting lpd: 2001-10-12-15:33:24.773 andrea1 Get_local_host: 'localhost' IP address not available!

fix it by going to /etc/hosts and make sure it has this line
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost

so for ex. my /etc/hosts file look like so

192.168.0.3 andrea1.cheetah.org andrea1
192.168.0.3 localhost.localdomain
192.168.0.1 router1.cheetah.org router1
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost

see 127.0.0.1 is loopback adress if its not there in this file you will get that error above

after the corrections you have made to your /etc/hosts file try to see if the corrections helped by doing this command
[root@andrea1 /root]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/lpd restart

lpd any do a Stopping lpd: [FAILED]
Starting lpd: [ OK ]

Successs see how starting lpd said ok...we are good to go rember to become root when editing the /etc/hosts and doing the command /etc/rc.d/init.d/lpd restart