[Spacewalk-list] Machine getting the wrong hostname

[Wojtak, Greg]

"When I do rhnreg_ks I specify the profile name as the fully qualified domain name, like this:

rhnreg_ks --serverUrl=https://spacewalk/XMLRPC --profilename=`hostname -f` --activationkey=1-blabla”

This is brilliant.  Is there a way to tell a kickstart to add the --profilename argument to the rhnreg_ks that gets generated?  We have to do our provisioning on a separate network from where the server eventually resides, so the profiles are all named localhost.localdomain until a post script renames everything, which to me is a kludge.

Greg

From: Matthew Madey <mattmadey at gmail.com<mailto:mattmadey at gmail.com>>
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Date: Wednesday, February 11, 2015 at 8:35 PM
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Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] Machine getting the wrong hostname

When I do rhnreg_ks I specify the profile name as the fully qualified domain name, like this:

rhnreg_ks --serverUrl=https://spacewalk/XMLRPC --profilename=`hostname -f` --activationkey=1-blabla

On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 5:03 PM, Brian Kinney <brian.kinney at memeo-inc.com<mailto:brian.kinney at memeo-inc.com>> wrote:
The DNS may not match the actual “hostname” of the new box.
Also, just because it is in /etc/hosts, does not mean that it is the true “hostname.”

To find out:
On a unix box, just type in “hostname” and press enter.
That will show you what the system thinks its own name is.

For windows, you have to right click on my computer, then properties to see the hostname.

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Brian

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Subject: [Spacewalk-list] Machine getting the wrong hostname

Hi!
I have a strange problem. I have a machine with a name, let say hostname1.

When I to the registering of it with:

rhnreg_ks --serverUrl=https://spacewalk/XMLRPC --activationkey=1-blabla

When I check the detail I see a hostname of “whatever”.

I have checked the DNS (forward and reverse), /etc/hosts and cannot find why I get that hostname.

Someone know what I should do to correct.

Thanks
Louis Francoeur

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