[Spacewalk-list] "Unknown" hostname

[Glaser, David]

It shouldn't have to be in DNS, as long as the hostname is set on the box (really set on the box, not just set in /etc/hosts). You can fake it if you want by using -profilename option in rhnreg_ks and forcing the profile name no matter what the machine thinks the hostname is at the time.

Dave


From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Chad Pritchett
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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?

Thanks,
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Chad Pritchett
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Murray State University
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On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Glaser, David <dsglaser at umich.edu<mailto:dsglaser at umich.edu>> wrote:

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.



Are you building/registering machines via kickstart?



Dave



David Glaser

Systems Administrator

University of Michigan



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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".


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Chad Pritchett
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Murray State University
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