[OmniOS-discuss] login error : solaris_audit

[Mayuresh Kathe]

On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 11:52:00AM -0700, Tim Rice wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Oct 2013, Mayuresh Kathe wrote:
> 
> > previous message showed the wrong error number, so here goes again.
> > ----
> > hi, my system is now throwing up errors after logging in.
> > 
> > Solaris_audit getaddrinfo(<hostname>) failed[node name or service name not known] : Error 0
> > Solaris_audit mapping <hostname> to <ip_addr> : Error 0
> > 
> > any pointers on how to resolve this would be welcome.
> > (my google skills aren't as well develped as i would've liked them to be).
> 
> Is your network connection static or dynamic?
> 
> Now track down some info and report back.
> # /sbin/ifconfig -a
> # cat /etc/inet/hosts
> # cat /etc/resolv.conf
> # egrep '^hosts:|^ipnodes:' /etc/nsswitch.conf

thanks tim, my external network connection is dynamic, internal is static.
bo had pointed out the error in my /etc/hosts file.
i hadn't entered the hostname and ip address in there.
did it, and the problem got resolved. :)

best,

~mayuresh