On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 08:05, Lars E. Pettersson wrote: > On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 14:48, Jeff Vian wrote: > > For this, you are slightly wrong. Each IP address line lists all names > > that are applicable. If you use multiple hostnames with the same IP > > they should all be listed on that line in /etc/hosts. > > Yes, correct, I should have mentioned that... A given IP-address can > have several names, all these can/should be placed after the IP-number > associated with them. > > One has to careful with the 127.0.0.1 line though, as it is easy to mess > things up by removing localhost.localdomain, and/or localhost for that > line. > I agree, and that is why the warning in that file. Adding extra information is good, removing the localhost entries is bad. > > Also, when doing an install with FC2, FC1, and earlier RedHat versions, > > the hostname given during the install is (in my experience) usually also > > placed on the 127.0.0.1 line of this file. > > As I mentioned in my anser to William Hooper I have not seen this > myself, but that is probably because I seldom install from scratch, and > when I do, I have static IP-numbers and hostnames that gets put > correctly in /etc/hosts (se my answer to William Hooper.) > > /Lars > -- > Lars E. Pettersson <lars@xxxxxxxx> > http://www.sm6rpz.se/ >
