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On 12/24/06, David Relson <relson@×××××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Sun, 24 Dec 2006 12:09:13 +0000 |
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> Mick wrote: |
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> |
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> ...[snip]... |
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> > > Now, I'm curious! On my system, I see the following: |
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> > > |
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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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> > > |
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> > > 192.168.1.10 osage.osagesoftware.com osage |
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> > > |
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> > > "strace -feopen" shows that /etc/hosts is opened by "hostname |
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> > > --fqdn" but not "hostname". |
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> > > |
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> > > What have I got wrong? |
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> > > |
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> > > Regards, |
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> > > |
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> > > David |
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> > > |
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> > > P.S. Greetings from one Kiewit alumni to another ... |
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> > |
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> > I discovered that the order of entries on the localhost line is |
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> > important to avoid hostname being identified as "none". I suppose in |
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> > your system it should be: |
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> > |
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> > 127.0.0.1 osage.osagesoftware.com osage localhost |
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> |
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> Curiouser and curiouser... |
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> |
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> Using your suggested line as the complete content of my /etc/hosts file |
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> has _no_ effect at all. |
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> |
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> As an experiment, I tried modifying /etc/conf.d/hostname to have just |
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> a test name, i.e. osagexxx, and restarting /etc/init.d/hostname. My |
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> system was not at all happy with that. |
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> |
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> ### hostname ; hostname -s ; hostname --fqdn ; dnsdomainname |
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> |
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> osagexxx |
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> hostname: Unknown host |
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> hostname: Unknown host |
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> dnsdomainname: Unknown host |
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As the OP, I checked this out. |
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Right now, the first two non-comment lines in /etc/hosts are |
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127.0.0.1 localhost |
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64.166.164.49 treat.kosmanor.com treat |
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Adding stuff to the localhost line has no effect. |
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Fooling with the 64...... line does. The first thing after the IP |
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seems to be taken as the |
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FQDN by "hostname --fqdn", so the order on the line is important. |
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Neither of these affects the results of "hostname", although I did not |
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reboot to test the |
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theory that this might make a difference. It seems more likely this comes from |
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/etc/conf.d/hostname |
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++ kevin |
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Kevin O'Gorman, PhD |
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