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[Ben Pfaff]

Sean <picasso@madflower.com> writes:

> On 12 Feb 2001, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> 
> > Robero Allende <rallende@harlan.di.unc.edu.ar> writes:
> > 
> > > Now I've another one :). Ok, it's no so seriously (everthing it's working
> > > but this error for me is strange)... A daemon says the follow:
> > > 
> > > gethostbyname: No such file or directory
> > 
> > Probably a buggy daemon.  What is it, and what version?

> What version of linux too. I kind of wonder if it is a RH problem where
> they put the info in a different spot or something similar. 

You seem to be assuming that the daemon is actually looking for a
file, and not finding it, and this is the actual error.  This is
unlikely.  Far more likely is that the program is mis-coded such
that it calls something like
	perror ("gethostbyname");
which is simply wrong because gethostbyname puts its error code
into h_errno, not errno, but perror() checks errno.  Thus, the
error message in question is probably just garbage from an
earlier call into libc.
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