[389-users] Changed hostname of machine. FDS Admin Server FAILS to start: I forgot to edit /etc/hosts as well

[David (Dave) Donnan]

Per you  are sooo right.

Silly me, I was changing /etc/sysconfig/network, rebooting, and not even 
thinking about the /etc/hosts file.

Egg on my face!

Have a nice weekend, Dave
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Per Qvindesland wrote:
> Check your /etc/host file and make sure that it says the correct ip 
> address and hostname
>
> Per
>
>     --- Original message follows ---
>     *Subject: *[389-users] Changed hostname of machine. FDS Admin
>     Server FAILS to start: Could not reliably determine the server's
>     fully qualified domain name
>     *From:  *"David (Dave) Donnan" <david.donnan at thalesgroup.com>
>     *To: *"Fedora-directory-users at redhat.com"
>     <Fedora-directory-users at redhat.com>
>     *Date: *15-05-2009 13:06
>
>
>     Hello everybody and thanks for the continued support. It's incredible.
>
>     I thought I'd be clever and installed my FDS on a machine with a
>     hostname of localhost.localdomain
>
>     When I rename it to it's proper hostname, a.b.c, the admin server
>     FAILS when I start it:
>
>             ./dirsrv-admin start
>             Starting dirsrv-admin:
>             httpd.worker: apr_sockaddr_info_get() failed for a.b.c
>             httpd.worker: Could not reliably determine the server's
>             fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.0.1 for ServerName
>                                                                       
>             [FAILED]
>
>     Honestly, I've tried everything I can think of, for example:
>
>     - hacking /etc/init.d/dirsrv-admin
>     - hacking /etc/dirsrv/admin-serv/httpd.conf specifically the
>     variable: ServerName a.b.c:390
>     - hacking /usr/sbin/start-ds-admin
>     ...
>
>     Q1. Can anyone recommend a solution ?
>
>     Thanks, Dave
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