> give your machine a name =) (i.e. snow.cris.com)
> the address "snow.cris.com" might not work from outside your machine, but
> you can make it work internally by putting this line in your /etc/hosts
> file:
> 
> 127.0.0.1  snow snow.cris.com
> 
> and restart. this should work fine :)
>   - a
> 

You might run into trouble if that's not:

127.0.0.1  localhost snow snow.cris.com
           ^^^^^^^^^

I think that you might need the localhost part in there, but I could be 
wrong.

Later.

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Colin Wood                                      ender@is.rice.edu
Consultant                                        Rice University
Information Technology Services                       Houston, TX