Lars E. Pettersson said: > On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 14:26, William Hooper wrote: > >>>> 127.0.0.1 my_hostname my_hostname.my_domain.tld localhost >>>> >>>> >>> >>> No, do not do that, that is not correct. It may work, but it is not >>> > the >>> correct way to do it. >> >> This is what Anaconda does if you put in a host name during the >> install. > > Sure about that? Yep, just set up a FC2 machine yesterday. > This is what anaconda put in my /etc/hosts on a test > machine that I set up last week (Fedora Core 2), given a hostname during > install (can one give a hostname without also giving a IP-number?) Yes, you can. [snip] > The main point I would like to stress is, do not remove > "localhost.localdomain localhost" on the 127.0.0.1 line, I think you > agree on that. Yep. -- William Hooper
