Hi Loris, On SL7, I believe hostnames are best set declaratively in the file /etc/hostname (as has been the case for long on other distros). I suspect the preferred imperative way to set hostname is with "hostnamectl set-hostname" (check the man hostnamectl).
Regards, Benjamin Lefoul nWISE AB ________________________________________ From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of Loris Bennett <[email protected]> Sent: 15 March 2016 11:43 To: [email protected] Subject: Setting hostname Hi, I'm using ansible to set up two servers and have run into the problem that on one server 'hostname' returns the just the name of the machine, but on the other I get the FQDN: # hostname -s; hostname -d; hostname -f; hostname tadmin01 test.cluster tadmin01.test.cluster tadmin01 # hostname -s; hostname -d; hostname -f; hostname tadmin02 test.cluster tadmin02.test.cluster tadmin02.test.cluster The following files are identical on both servers /etc/hosts /etc/resolv.conf The files /etc/sysconfig/network differs just in the following way: < HOSTNAME=tadmin01 --- > HOSTNAME=tadmin02 What other files could have an influence on what 'hostname' returns? Cheers, Loris -- This signature is currently under construction.
