James Sparenberg wrote: > On Sun, 2003-02-16 at 04:45, Buchan Milne wrote: > >>On 16 Feb 2003, James Sparenberg wrote: >> >> >>>All, >>> >>> I've run into this problem with cooker the default creation of >>>/etc/hosts when installing a nic card is >>> >>>127.0.0.1 localhost >>> >>> >>>Now a number of apps like evolution need to "resolve" the local >>>hostname. Which by default is localhost.localdomain and they can't. >>>The fix is to have the default hosts file >>> >>>127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost >>> >> >>What does 'hostname' give you? I guess localhost.localdomain. So, you will >>notice that it can't be hardcoded as localhost.localdomain, it should be >>set to `hostname`. > > > That's fine meaning it is as you stated.... but prior to 9.1 the second > example was the "default" setup of hosts, whereas with with the current > localhost.localdomain is missing and does cause problems with Evolution > and proftpd.... I understand the solution and so do you. But, a number > of new users won't. All they see is a product that doesn't work. >
I agree, I just did not want the proposal to be hardcoding localhost.localdomain, since that is just as broken. It needs to be able to find `hostname` to work. Buchan -- |--------------Another happy Mandrake Club member--------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7
