On Sun, 24 Dec 2006 12:09:13 +0000 Mick wrote: ...[snip]... > > Now, I'm curious! On my system, I see the following: > > > > dnsdomainname osagesoftware.com > > hostname osage.osagesoftware.com > > hostname --fqdn osage.osagesoftware.com > > > > /etc/hosts contains: > > > > 192.168.1.10 osage.osagesoftware.com osage > > > > "strace -feopen" shows that /etc/hosts is opened by "hostname > > --fqdn" but not "hostname". > > > > What have I got wrong? > > > > Regards, > > > > David > > > > P.S. Greetings from one Kiewit alumni to another ... > > I discovered that the order of entries on the localhost line is > important to avoid hostname being identified as "none". I suppose in > your system it should be: > > 127.0.0.1 osage.osagesoftware.com osage localhost
Curiouser and curiouser... Using your suggested line as the complete content of my /etc/hosts file has _no_ effect at all. As an experiment, I tried modifying /etc/conf.d/hostname to have just a test name, i.e. osagexxx, and restarting /etc/init.d/hostname. My system was not at all happy with that. ### hostname ; hostname -s ; hostname --fqdn ; dnsdomainname osagexxx hostname: Unknown host hostname: Unknown host dnsdomainname: Unknown host -- [email protected] mailing list
