Subject: localhost - The Cliff Notes version?
From: "Roderick A. Anderson" <raanders@acm.org>
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:32:01 -0800

OK, I'm sorry to open this can of worms again but I can't get my head 
wrapped around the localhost (127.0.0.1) in guests thing.

I have guests running PostgreSQL and postfix.  Both _would_ like a (or 
rather pitch a bitch if there is no) localhost entry when they are 
installed or an attempt is made to start them.

I've hacked my way through this but I think from watching this list 
there must be an easier way to get around the messages/errors.

So in "user-dummy{1}" terms can anyone offer a solution to making 
localhost auto-magically work?

I see that all the 127.0.0. IPs ping from inside a guest but I don't 
want to do anything that will cause the host or other guests to die or, 
for that matter, the universe to end if I just put a "localhost" entry 
in /etc/hosts.


TIA,
Rod
-- 
[1] My thanks to Firefly (Out of Gas) for this alternative to clue-stick 
requests.  :-)