My machine != localhost.localdomain?

Gilbert Sebenste sebenste at weather3.admin.niu.edu
Sat Oct 6 00:56:30 UTC 2007


On Fri, 5 Oct 2007, Rick Stevens wrote:

> The "HOSTNAME=" bit in /etc/sysconfig/network should reflect what you
> want the machine to be named.
>
> In /etc/hosts, you want (at least) the following two lines:
>
> 	127.0.0.1	localhost.localdomain localhost
> 	w.x.y.z		hostname.domain.com hostname
>
> replacing "w.x.y.z" with the actual IP address of the machine and
> "hostname.domain.com" and "hostname" with the appropriate data.

Thanks Frank and Rick, but this didn't solve my problem. Indeed, the 
/etc/hosts file was messed up, so I fixed it, rebooted, and I still get 
the same warning message. Gotta be another place where it's messed up...

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Gilbert Sebenste                                                     ********
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