On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 09:36:30AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Hi, | | I am trying to get a commercial application which was originally intended | for Redhat 6.2 to work on Woody. | | It complines that gethostbyaddr() cannot find the local machine's hostname. | The box is set up correctly and from | strace I can see that it looks in the right files and actually reads the | data.
Which files would that be? Which data?
If the app calls gethostbyaddr() and passes "127.0.0.1" as the
address, the function returns the first entry on the 127.0.0.1 line
from /etc/hosts. Put your FQDN there. exim and sendmail also
experience this quirk.
-D
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