On Friday 22 December 2006 12:20, David Relson wrote: > On Thu, 21 Dec 2006 21:45:07 -0800 > Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > ...[snip]... > > > Oops. I should have known I could answer my own question with a > > little more digging. I now see that there's > > hostname > > hostname --fqdn > > dnsdomainname > > and they all work by looking in /etc/host.conf, and if (as is true > > here) that says > > to use the hosts file first, it looks for it in /etc/hosts, which has > > the fqdn. I seem to dimly recall that it actually looks for the first > > non-comment, but that > > cannot be quite right, because localhost comes first in my copy. > > Maybe it's the first > > routable IP number? > > > > I think this sub-problem is solved. I've commented my config files a > > bit more, so I > > won't make the same mistake again. > > > > ++ kevin > > Now, I'm curious! On my system, I see the following: > > dnsdomainname osagesoftware.com > hostname osage.osagesoftware.com > hostname --fqdn osage.osagesoftware.com > > /etc/hosts contains: > > 192.168.1.10 osage.osagesoftware.com osage > > "strace -feopen" shows that /etc/hosts is opened by "hostname --fqdn" > but not "hostname". > > What have I got wrong? > > Regards, > > David > > P.S. Greetings from one Kiewit alumni to another ...
I discovered that the order of entries on the localhost line is important to avoid hostname being identified as "none". I suppose in your system it should be: 127.0.0.1 osage.osagesoftware.com osage localhost HTH -- Regards, Mick
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