Re: help, cant get lpr to work

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From: Stuart Langley
Date: Tue, 09 Sep 1997 00:00

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Nicholas Pappas wrote:

> G'day,
>
>         when I try to use lpr it says its 'unable to get official name
> of local
> machine'. any ideas? any help would be much appreciated.
>
>                                 THANKS

Make sure you've entered your hostname in /etc/HOSTNAME and in
/etc/hosts. Try uname -a and see what it says.

Cheers,

Stuart

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