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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!newshost.marcam.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!interaccess!flowbee!pitts From: pitts@flowbee.interaccess.com (James Pitts) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: EMACS and FreeBSD 2.1-SNAP ... (funny) Date: 25 Sep 1995 14:25:14 GMT Organization: InterAccess, Chicago's best Internet service provider. Lines: 23 Message-ID: <446e4a$63d@nntp.interaccess.com> References: <4410av$kmf@nntp.interaccess.com> <445hir$9q9@reason.cdrom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: flowbee.interaccess.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] For the record, this was the problem. Thanks to all who replied. I am frankly a little suprised at myself that I didn't figure it out. Jordan K. Hubbard (jkh@FreeBSD.org) wrote: : pitts@flowbee.interaccess.com (James Pitts) wrote: : >After this, I installed some packages on the machine, including EMACS. : >Everything seemed to be just fine until I went to edit a file with emacs. : >EMACS started to come up, then the modem dialed my provider, established a : >ppp connection, exchanged some packets when someone somewher, and then : >let me edit the file. Now I can't use emacs without establishing a ppp : >connection. :/ : You probably have bind before hosts in /etc/host.conf and it's going over DNS : to look up your own hostname.. :-) : -- : Jordan -- - pitts@crawfish.bloomingdale.il.us ^ | James J. Pitts w--- N++ b++ G - - Most people are cattle. In every /@\ | GCS d++ a- C++ UB++++ h---- M - - generation, a few leaders are born. / \ | UA++++ UH++++ L- V-- r+++ D++ - - I am such a leader. /_____\ | PGP++ t+@ 5++@ e++ z++++ DI++ -