On Sun, 2005-04-17 at 12:44 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Apr 2005, Craig White wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 2005-04-17 at 12:08 -0500, Michael Hennebry wrote:
> > > /etc/hosts contains only
> > > # Do not remove the following line, or various programs
> > > # that require network functionality will fail.
> > > 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
> > >
> > > I that infer my machine has not been getting its hostname through DNS.
> > >
> > > Is there a way to ask the system where it did get the hostname?
> > ----
> > cat /etc/sysconfig/network
>
> That gives me
> NETWORKING=yes
> HOSTNAME=localhost.localdomain
> which to me is not informative.
>
> > you can edit there if you wish - probably have to '/sbin/service network
> > restart' to get it to take though.
> >
> > My guess is that you named this machine when you did the original
> > install.
>
> Assuming I did so (it was orange and it tasted like orange juice),
> where would that information be stored?
----
informative is a relative thing - one must also be able to comprehend
what is meant by the answer.
In this case, your computer thinks its' name is 'localhost.localdomain'
# hostname --help
Usage: hostname [-v] {hostname|-F file} set hostname (from file)
domainname [-v] {nisdomain|-F file} set NIS domainname (from
file)
hostname [-v] [-d|-f|-s|-a|-i|-y|-n] display formatted name
hostname [-v] display hostname
hostname -V|--version|-h|--help print info and exit
dnsdomainname=hostname -d, {yp,nis,}domainname=hostname -y
-s, --short short host name
-a, --alias alias names
-i, --ip-address addresses for the hostname
-f, --fqdn, --long long host name (FQDN)
-d, --domain DNS domain name
-y, --yp, --nis NIS/YP domainname
-F, --file read hostname or NIS domainname from given
file
This command can read or set the hostname or the NIS domainname. You can
also read the DNS domain or the FQDN (fully qualified domain name).
Unless you are using bind or NIS for host lookups you can change the
FQDN (Fully Qualified Domain Name) and the DNS domain name (which is
part of the FQDN) in the /etc/hosts file.
# uname --help
Usage: uname [OPTION]...
Print certain system information. With no OPTION, same as -s.
-a, --all print all information, in the following
order:
-s, --kernel-name print the kernel name
-n, --nodename print the network node hostname
-r, --kernel-release print the kernel release
-v, --kernel-version print the kernel version
-m, --machine print the machine hardware name
-p, --processor print the processor type
-i, --hardware-platform print the hardware platform
-o, --operating-system print the operating system
--help display this help and exit
--version output version information and exit
Report bugs to <bug-coreutils@xxxxxxx>.
# uname -n
lin-workstation.azapple.com
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of course, doing it this way, it is only temporarily setting it. To
permanently set it, probably best to edit /etc/sysconfig/network.
If you had permanently set a different hostname at install time, it
would have shown up there.
Craig
