Neal Becker wrote:

> Installing gridengine seems to fail with:
> Starting qmaster installation!
> Hostname: nbecker6
> Aliases:  localhost.localdomain localhost
> Host Address(es): 127.0.0.1
> 
> 
> The current hostname is resolved as follows:
> 
> Hostname: nbecker6
> Aliases:  localhost.localdomain localhost
> Host Address(es): 127.0.0.1
> 
> It is not supported for a Grid Engine installation that the local hostname
> contains the hostname "localhost" and/or the IP address "127.0.x.x" of the
> loopback interface.
> The "localhost" hostname should be reserved for the loopback interface
> ("127.0.0.1") and the real hostname should be assigned to one of the
> physical or logical network interfaces of this machine.
> 
> Installation failed.
> 
> /etc/hosts says:
> # Do not remove the following line, or various programs
> # that require network functionality will fail.
> 127.0.0.1     nbecker6        localhost.localdomain   localhost
> ::1           localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6
> 
> What's the deal here?  I thought that removing localhost would, as the
> comment in /etc/hosts says, cause lots of problems with various
> applications.
> 

Actually, I misread that.  It wants to remove the actual hostname 'nbecker6' 
and leave only
127.0.0.1       localhost.localdomain   localhost

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