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From: adam@veda.is (Adam David)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Problems porting from sun to 386bsd
Message-ID: <C53sKK.8w@veda.is>
Date: 7 Apr 93 07:53:07 GMT
References: <1ptigvINNjv1@manuel.anu.edu.au>
Organization: Veda Systems, Iceland
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cml851@huxley.anu.edu.au (A.T.) writes:

>2.Another question is that when mailing locally mail.local came up with the
>message "localhost: connection refused" so I found mail.local.c and in every
>occurance of localhost (2) replaced it with gertrude, compiled it and the
>messages went away.

You did the wrong thing :-)  (well, at least it works)

The correct fix is to replace every occurence of "localhost" with "localhost."
in the mail.local.c file.

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Adam D. (adam@veda.is)