On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 4:40 PM, Adrián Márques <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello there. > > I'm trying out spacewalk on CentOs 5.2 and all my clients' hostnames and > system names are being registered as 'unknown' on the server. What could be > the reason? How does the server determine the client's hostname? > > I suppose this is part of the problem: my systems are connected through a > windows network and I can't resolve their hostnames. Well, actually I can > now, but it took configuring samba to publish the netbios name, doing > hostname resolution through WINS and even then I'm not resolving the FQDNs > (clientname.domainname) but the netbios names (clientname). > > I'd appreciate any comments on this. > > Thanks for you attention. > > Best regards. > > Adrián.
The client uses whatever is returned by gethostname() from the socket, so you could check out what that returns with this little snippet of code: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ python >>> from socket import gethostname >>> gethostname() 'firebird.home.net' >>> Like others have stated, easiest way is to edit /etc/hosts. There are probably other more "appropriate" ways of doing hostnames. :) jesus _______________________________________________ Spacewalk-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list
