"Rainer Gerhards" <[email protected]> writes: >> He says rsyslog exclusively relies on what is returned by the os. Yes >> but by what mechanism? > > gethostname(), what according to the man page is the mechanism to use ;) > > http://git.adiscon.com/?p=rsyslog.git;a=blob;f=runtime/net.c;h=ab431f7cddfda4 > 1b689e6ab4819b5ffe031e52fb;hb=HEAD#l1331
Looks pretty complicated... gack. Thanks... Apparently somewhere in the workings of gethostname() the /etc/hosts file is scanned. Thanks. _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog http://www.rsyslog.com
