On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 18:26 -0500, Gilbert Sebenste wrote: > Hello all, > > I hope someone can answer this... > > I had to swap out one of my machines this afternoon. Before I did that, I > called it "localhost.localdomain", by default, in the > system-config-network interface, and fixed an IP so that I could access > the Internet. > > Well, when it came time to swap out the machine with one named > something.etc.blah.edu, it now says in /var/log/messages that > something.etc.blah.edu != localhost.localdomain. Did something not "take" > when I renamed it? What files should I look in to find out? It's a warning > message, but I want to get rid of that error message altogether. The "HOSTNAME=" bit in /etc/sysconfig/network should reflect what you want the machine to be named. In /etc/hosts, you want (at least) the following two lines: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost w.x.y.z hostname.domain.com hostname replacing "w.x.y.z" with the actual IP address of the machine and "hostname.domain.com" and "hostname" with the appropriate data. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Principal Engineer rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxx - - CDN Systems, Internap, Inc. http://www.internap.com - - - - "Do you suffer from long-term memory loss?" "I don't remember" - - -- Chumbawumba, "Amnesia" (TubThumping) - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
