Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Add compile domain | From | Måns Rullgård <> | Date | Thu, 25 May 2006 23:12:16 +0100 |
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Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> writes:
> On Thursday 25 May 2006 22:14, Martin J. Bligh wrote: >> > 20:35 mason:/etc # rpm -qf `which hostname` >> > net-tools-1.60-37 >> > 21:00 mason:/etc # hostname -v >> > gethostname()=`mason' >> > mason >> > 21:00 mason:/etc # hostname --fqdn >> > mason >> > 21:00 mason:/etc # domainname >> > (none) >> > 21:00 mason:/etc # dnsdomainname >> > >> > >> > Runs Aurora Linux 2.0. >> >> Ubuntu does this too: >> >> mbligh@flay:~$ hostname >> flay >> mbligh@flay:~$ hostname --fqdn >> localhost.localdomain > > I think it's as Lennart suggested. From the man page for /etc/hosts ("man > hosts"), it seems to suggest that the format should be: > > IP_address canonical_hostname aliases > > On Ubuntu and approximately on my system, it's doing: > > 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain <alias> > > But the manpage suggests that "alias" might contain "localhost". On our > machines it contains the "name" we assigned the machine.
The /etc/hosts file that was installed with the Slackware that ran on my first Linux machine contained a comment strongly advising against associating 127.0.0.1 with the hostname (or anything other than localhost). Apparently some programs (which I don't recall) would break if you did so. I have followed that advice ever since.
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