In the message dated: Mon, 16 Nov 2020 15:15:11 +0000, The pithy ruminations from Christian Caruthers on [[External] [xcat-user] makehosts not creating aliases Possibly Bug 6828?] were: => Running 2.16.0.lenovo1 on stock CentOS 8.2.
I'm running 2.16.0.lenovo1 on stock CentOS 7.8, and I'm seeing very similar behavior to what Christian described. => => I have the following setup: => => nodels login hosts.hostnames midway3-login1: login1,l1 midway3-login2: => login2,l2 => => When I run makehosts login (w/ or w/o "-l"), these are not created: Same here: ########################################################### [root@mgmt1 ~]# lsdef head1|grep hostnames hostnames=J12345,head1 # The node definition has the alias [root@mgmt1 ~]# [root@mgmt1 ~]# nodels head1 hosts.hostnames head1: J12345,head1 # The hosts table has the alias [root@mgmt1 ~]# [root@mgmt1 ~]# nodels head1 nics.nicaliases head1: J12345,head1 # The nics table has an alias -- the behavior is the same if this is present or not [root@mgmt1 ~]# [root@mgmt1 ~]# grep head1 /etc/hosts 10.20.10.1 head1 head1.mydomain.local # there is no alias in /etc/hosts [root@mgmt1 ~]# [root@mgmt1 ~]# makehosts # makehosts runs without error [root@mgmt1 ~]# [root@mgmt1 ~]# grep head1 /etc/hosts 10.20.10.1 head1 head1.mydomain.local # there is still no alias [root@mgmt1 ~]# [root@mgmt1 ~]# [root@mgmt1 ~]# lsxcatd -v Version 2.16.1.lenovo1 (git commit 06d7097f42eca03db70c9eb93b8abeaf8ca1c2be, built Mon Jan 25 14:50:48 UTC 2021) [root@mgmt1 ~]# ########################################################### => => It appears to be related to bug 6828. Was there a workaround beyond => duplicating efforts and defining the interface in the nics table? => In my case, adding an alias to the nics table doesn't seem to help. Any suggestions? Thanks, Mark => => Regards, Christian Caruthers Lenovo Professional Services Mobile: => 757-289-9872 -- Mark Bergman voice: 215-746-4061 mark.berg...@pennmedicine.upenn.edu fax: 215-614-0266 http://www.med.upenn.edu/cbica/ IT Technical Director, Center for Biomedical Image Computing and Analytics Department of Radiology University of Pennsylvania _______________________________________________ xCAT-user mailing list xCAT-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcat-user