sudo problem/question

[Kipton Moravec]

On Mon, 2010-04-12 at 01:24 -0400, Tom H wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 11:46 PM, Kipton Moravec <kip at kdream.com> wrote:
> > When I try to use sudo on one of my 8.04 Ubuntu computers I get the
> > message
> >
> > sudo: unable to resolve host violet
> >
> > It then asks for the password.
> >
> > The prompt is kip at violet:
> >
> > So part of the machine knows it is violet.
> > violet is the name of the machine in the System -> Network -> General
> > (Tab) -> Host Name: field.
> >
> > How do I fix it so the warning does not appear?
> >
> > I tried adding an alias in the hosts as it had
> >
> > 127.0.0.1 localhost violet.Workgroup
> >
> > so I changed it to
> >
> > 127.0.0.1 localhost violet.Workgroup violet
> >
> > but that did not fix it.
> 
> Please post
> cat /etc/hostname
> cat /etc/hosts
> 
kip at violet:~$ cat /etc/hostname
violet
kip at violet:~$ cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.1.1 violet.home violet.workgroup violet.WORKGROUP
#10.165.192.33   ad5oo.ham-radio-op.net

# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
ff02::3 ip6-allhosts


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