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

["Dr. Günter Schmidt"]

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Riley, Liz (ACHE) wrote:

>Günter,
>
>I understand, however, I only 2 days ago installed RH3 ES on a box and
specified its name.. /etc/hosts looks didnt have a line with the
hostname in at all. I had to add it myself.. (I did DHCP + preset
hostname). So there must be some difference, somewhere..

Our installations are with RHEL3 WS!

I can imagine, that standalone workstations, which have only dialup
connections, would work well with
the hostname in the localhost line.

Günter

 
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