> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:rsyslog- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Harry Putnam > Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2010 6:01 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [rsyslog] How rsyslog derives hostname > > "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=ab431f7c > ddfda4 > > 1b689e6ab4819b5ffe031e52fb;hb=HEAD#l1331 > > Looks pretty complicated... gack. > > Thanks... Apparently somewhere in the workings of gethostname() the > /etc/hosts file is scanned.
My (uneducated) guess is that this is distro/version specific. Raienr _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog http://www.rsyslog.com
