I figure out my problem. Earlier today I wrote:
> Using Fedora Core 4 test 1, my loopback interface has no address.
> ifconfig says:
>
> lo Link encap:Local Loopback
> UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
> RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
> RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
>
> This has caused a few things not to work.
> Is this some new security thing?
I added
IPADDR=127.0.0.1
to /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-lo
and when I did "ifdown lo" and "ifup lo" it had an address - yipee.
The solution actually seens kinda obvious. Perhaps this should be
in the file that's installed.
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