I thought I had followed the instructions to the letter but I must be missing something. I have loaded hostname and used it by typing "hostname honda". When I just type hostname it returns "honda" so I figure this is OK. I created a /etc/hosts file containing the following:

127.0.0.1 localhost
192.168.0.8 honda (none)

yet everytime i try and start rsync as a daemon "rsync --daemon" it fails and i receive in the log file the "gethostbyname: "Unknown host"" error message.

I have tried this with and without using hostname. I have also tried it with the second line of the host file containing:

192.168.0.8 honda honda.mydomain.com

with the same results. Any suggestions??

Thanks