or there may be a services-switch file David Lang
On Wed, 3 Mar 2010, Sayan Chowdhury wrote: > Hello Harry, > Look at your /etc/host.conf file, it's most probably set up to look at the > /etc/hosts file before the name servers. > Regards, > Sayan > > On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 10:33 PM, Rainer Gerhards > <[email protected]>wrote: > >>> -----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 >> > _______________________________________________ > rsyslog mailing list > http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog > http://www.rsyslog.com > _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog http://www.rsyslog.com
