On Sat, 2004-09-25 at 03:59, Juan L. Pastor wrote: > On Sat, 2004-09-11 at 21:59, Robert Locke wrote: > > The initial hostname is set in the file /etc/sysconfig/network. > > > > Be aware that the networking startup scripts may obtain the hostname > > from a DHCP server or DNS server (as a reverse lookup). > > > > If you set the name to something in /etc/sysconfig/network, it is > > probably a good idea to have that name appear in /etc/hosts (as you were > > thinking), to ensure that your machine knows how to find itself. > > On my system I get: > > [jlpastor@kalimotxo jlpastor]$ hostname > kalimotxo.euskal.net > [jlpastor@kalimotxo jlpastor]$ hostname --fqdn > kalimotxo.euskal.net > [jlpastor@kalimotxo jlpastor]$ dnsdomainname > euskal.net > [jlpastor@kalimotxo jlpastor]$ > > My /etc/sysconfig/network is: > [jlpastor@kalimotxo jlpastor]$ cat /etc/sysconfig/network > NETWORKING=yes > HOSTNAME=kalimotxo.euskal.net > > and my /etc/hosts: > [jlpastor@kalimotxo jlpastor]$ cat /etc/hosts > # Do not remove the following line, or various programs > # that require network functionality will fail. > 127.0.0.1 kalimotxo.euskal.net kalimotxo > localhost.localdomain localhost > > How is it that I get the same output for the hostname and hostname > --fqdn commands? > > Juan Not sure I see a problem here.... Isn't life fully-qualified? <big grin> Perhaps you are looking for the command "hostname --short"? --Rob
