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