Hostname problem, and others

[gaeilgeboy]

Ok, I have one of many of the typical problems that you find with people new to FreeBSD. I keep getting this error message when i load up:

Could not look up internet adderss for setanta. 
This will prevent Xfce from operating correctly. 
It may be possible to correct the by adding 
setanta to the file /etc/hosts on your system.

Where setanta is the hostname. I entered "hostname setanta" and the command line. Here's the relevant excerpts from the /etc files:

In /etc/hosts

::1 localhost 
127.0.0.1 localhost 
192.168.2.121 localhost.localdomain localhost setanta.

And in /etc/rc.conf

defaultrouter="192.168.2.254" 
hostname="setanta" 
ifconfig_fxp0="inet 192.168.2.121 netmask 225.225.225.0"

I'm not too sure whether the above IP addresses are correct, or even how to find the correct ones, so any help would be greatly appeciated!

Also, is there and command to list the hardware? I used dmesg, but I can't find much stuff on it. Particularly, I'm looking to see what kind of sound card is in the laptop, if any.

Finally, I keep getting the error message "write failed, filesystem is full", even though I've deleted a lot of stuff from my laptop. There's only two users on it, root and "cathal". How do you change the disk space given to each user?

Thanks,
Cathal

[18Googol2]

Originally Posted by gaeilgeboy

Could not look up internet adderss for setanta. 
This will prevent Xfce from operating correctly. 
It may be possible to correct the by adding 
setanta to the file /etc/hosts on your system.

Yes its possible to append the host name in the hosts file, but it isnt an elegant solution.

In a nutshell, it is unqualified domain name issue, a quick way to fix is to put a similar entry in the /etc/rc.conf file:

hostname="machine.localnet"

Check my posts in the following thread as reference:

http://daemonforums.org/showthread.php?t=1074

Also, is there and command to list the hardware? I used dmesg, but I can't find much stuff on it. Particularly, I'm looking to see what kind of sound card is in the laptop, if any.

Hardware info can be checked with dmesg, there are a few more:

pciconf -lv (look for class audio)
sysctl -a | grep %desc
devinfo

Finally, I keep getting the error message "write failed, filesystem is full", even though I've deleted a lot of stuff from my laptop. There's only two users on it, root and "cathal". How do you change the disk space given to each user?

Afaik, if the disk quota service doesnt not run, it isnt possible, any user can max out his disk usage.

[gaeilgeboy]

Ok,

I tried adding in the line ' hostname="machine.localnet" ' in /etc/rc.conf, but I still get the same message.

[jgroch]

I'm also a new user, and xfce was giving me the same error until I edited the hosts file today. It used to say:

::1			localhost localhost.my.domain
127.0.0.1		localhost localhost.my.domain

Today I added the part that showed up in the error message ("Could not look up internet address for Plato.Realm.bsd. This...."):

::1			localhost localhost.my.domain Plato.Realm.bsd
127.0.0.1		localhost localhost.my.domain Plato.Realm.bsd

I think that is in agreement with the handbook 11.10.2.2 etc/hosts.

All I know is the error message doesn't appear anymore, and I haven't had any problems. Though I wouldn't mind hearing from someone else what xfce is trying to do with it, and if that's a proper solution.