It does mention that you need a hostname other than localhost, but localhost is needed by a number of core system services. For some reason FC2 (and RH9 before it) sets up your default /etc/hosts file as something like
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost simpsons simpsons.af.mil if you said your fully qualified domain name was simpsons.af.mil (for example). I can see why you decided to remark out that whole line. What I generally do is to separate the line to read 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 192.168.1.1 simpsons.af.mil simpsons It seems to work anywayIn FC2 you have to do this by hand because the gui helpfully hides the localhost line so that you don't decide its not neccesary and remove it. On Mon, 7 Feb 2005 20:44:26 -0800, Bernard Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Mike: > > Can you let us know where in the installation guide did it say to comment > out localhost in /etc/hosts? I am just trying to find where it is... > > And no, I don't think you should comment it out... > > Cheers, > > Bernard > > ________________________________ > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Johnston Michael > J Contr AFRL/DES > Sent: Mon 07/02/2005 2:40 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Oscar-users] POSTFIX question > > > > I have my OSCAR cluster running (thanks to the help of many of you) and all > seems to be working great. I did have a few questions though about POSTFIX. > I noticed that when booting up that the postfix service was failing. It's > not starting because it doesn't know where localhost is. Per the > installation guide I #'d out the localhost in the /etc/hosts file. Since > the hosts file is what's copied from the master node to the other nodes, > none of them know what lochalhost is. I noticed that when I went to NODE1 > and added localhost behind its listing the postfix starts up just fine. > > My question is this; is postfix important and should I go to each node and > modify the hosts file so they all know what localhost is? Is this usual or > should OSCAR have added this line into the hosts at install. > > Thanks again for the support! > > Mike > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide > Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. > Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click > _______________________________________________ > Oscar-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users > ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ Oscar-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users
