AFAIR it only ever looked at the "primary" interface. Whichever came up first in ifconfig -a and never cared to look at additional interfaces.
We had to tweak our /etc/hosts so that hostname always returned the "oracle" name of the box so that it could correctly talk to itself. (Int. Agent, etc). John Summerfied <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: Linux on 390 Port <[email protected]> 11/01/2005 04:34 AM Please respond to Linux on 390 Port To: [email protected] cc: Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] /etc/hosts Jeremy Warren wrote: > Sorry I missed the earlier part of the thread if this was already > covered.. > > We had a similar issue with Oracle on AIX, it was only a problem with a > multi-homed guest. In that circumstance oracle defaulted to looking at > the hosts file to know what interface / name itself was. Is there a problem with uname(2)? -- Cheers John -- spambait [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tourist pics http://portgeographe.environmentaldisasters.cds.merseine.nu/ do not reply off-list ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
