I'm not doing this in kickstart at the moment, just running a script that installs the tools and registers the system. This is always done after we've set the hostname, although it might not necessarily be in DNS. Could that be the problem?<br>
<br>Thanks,<br clear="all">--<br>Chad Pritchett<br>Linux Systems Administrator<br><br>Murray State University<br>(270) 809-5752<br><a href="mailto:chad.pritchett@murraystate.edu">chad.pritchett@murraystate.edu</a><br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Glaser, David <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dsglaser@umich.edu">dsglaser@umich.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">That usually happens if when you register you don’t have a
hostname set on the machine (i.e it comes up with a hostname of
localhost.localdomain) or when you register the machine it doesn’t have a
hostname that can be determined from DNS.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Are you building/registering machines via kickstart?</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Dave</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">David Glaser</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">Systems Administrator</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">University of Michigan</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></p>
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<p><b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">
<a href="mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces@redhat.com" target="_blank">spacewalk-list-bounces@redhat.com</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces@redhat.com" target="_blank">spacewalk-list-bounces@redhat.com</a>] <b>On
Behalf Of </b>Chad Pritchett<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, July 02, 2009 12:17 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:spacewalk-list@redhat.com" target="_blank">spacewalk-list@redhat.com</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Spacewalk-list] "Unknown" hostname</span></p>
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<p>Spacewalk is not picking up the hostnames of new systems I
am registering. This was working just fine, but at some point they
started showing up as "unknown".<br>
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--<br>
Chad Pritchett<br>
Linux Systems Administrator<br>
<br>
Murray State University<br>
(270) 809-5752<br>
<a href="mailto:chad.pritchett@murraystate.edu" target="_blank">chad.pritchett@murraystate.edu</a></p>
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