[rhn-users] hostname in 'localhost' line of /etc/hosts

["Dr. Günter Schmidt"]

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Hi,

does anybody know why  all RedHat installations writes the hostname
into the file /etc/hosts
behind the line
   127.0.0.1       localhost.localdomain   localhost   myhost

For my understanding this will allways result in an error if 'myhost'
is also the registered
DNS hostname.
With the upper line the command 'hostname -f' will return
'localhost.localdomain' and
not as expected something like 'myhost.mycompany.com'.

The worst thing is, that this line is never displayed in the
graphical  editors like 'neat' or
'redhat-config-network'

Thanks,
    Günter


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Dr. Günter Schmidt   |   E-Mail: gsc at bruker.de
NMR Software         |   Tel: +49 721 5161 443
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