Neal Becker wrote: > Neal Becker wrote: > >> Installing gridengine seems to fail with: >> Starting qmaster installation! >> Hostname: nbecker6 >> Aliases: localhost.localdomain localhost >> Host Address(es): 127.0.0.1 >> >> >> The current hostname is resolved as follows: >> >> Hostname: nbecker6 >> Aliases: localhost.localdomain localhost >> Host Address(es): 127.0.0.1 >> >> It is not supported for a Grid Engine installation that the local hostname >> contains the hostname "localhost" and/or the IP address "127.0.x.x" of the >> loopback interface. >> The "localhost" hostname should be reserved for the loopback interface >> ("127.0.0.1") and the real hostname should be assigned to one of the >> physical or logical network interfaces of this machine. >> >> Installation failed. >> >> /etc/hosts says: >> # Do not remove the following line, or various programs >> # that require network functionality will fail. >> 127.0.0.1 nbecker6 localhost.localdomain localhost >> ::1 localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6 >> >> What's the deal here? I thought that removing localhost would, as the >> comment in /etc/hosts says, cause lots of problems with various >> applications. >> > > Actually, I misread that. It wants to remove the actual hostname 'nbecker6' > and leave only > 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost > You can drop the localhost.localdomain entry, don't drop localhost. -- Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx> "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines