Sitat Greg Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:



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> On Tuesday 25 February 2003 07:38 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


> > > Doing it in the install process would be *even* more broken. It


> should


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> > > be done in the network init scripts, so that an entry for 127.0.0.1


> is


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> > >


> > > made for the output of hostname (which is what GNOME, and many


> other


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> > > things, look for). localhost.localdomain just happens to be the


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> > > default


> > >


> > >


> > > hostname.


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> > Which is wrong. The default hostname for 127.0.0.1 should be


> localhost.


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> So GNOME is broken then?




Everything that assumes that localhost is called localhost.localdomain is 
broken. Read once that RedHat introduced localhost.localdomain sometime, 
and it has stuck since. No idea why.




Sebastian


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