Iain thanks for this reply, I posted my response before I saw it. Before the solution, the etc/hosts was empty, also I tried it unsuccessfully with a line localhost.localdomain As I mentioned I found a solution was to add a line 192.168.100.4 localhost.localdomain beta localhost Greg -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list