NeWS can't find host information for "cinnamon"

[Jim Bennett]

In article <2356 at idunno.Princeton.EDU> sullivan at math.Princeton.EDU (John M. Sullivan) writes:

>I was trying to put a new Iris on our network, and copied a bunch of
>files over from one of our other machines to get yp set up right, etc.
>yp does now seem to work, but somehow I broke NeWS.
>
>If I log in on the console now (without NOGRAPHICS), I get a message
>(too quickly to read it) about the window server dying with status 1.
>If I run /bin/news_server by hand, it says:
>NeWS can't find host information for "cinnamon"

There was a problem in 3.2 that had these symptoms.  Check in the
the directory /usr/etc/yp for a file called "resolv.conf" (spelling?).
If it exists, delete it and reboot.  The NeWS server should now come up.

This problem is fixed in 3.3.

Jim Bennett			(bennett at esd.sgi.com)