[GLLUG] hostname difficulties

[Scott Harrison]

RH 4/5/6/7/8 are known to produce messed up
/etc/hosts files with jumbled lines like:

127.0.0.1  localhost.localdomain 192.168.5.4 computer4.scrudrlmcb.net

Note, I think /etc/sysconfig/network specifies the hostname.

For myself, with RH, the only time I use a wizard is for
configuring and managing printers.  Otherwise, I find that I too often
get burned by wizard interfaces which do magically buggy things.
(Tip: reverse engineer by scanning /etc everytime you use their wizard
 to see which files it is altering?)

On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 00:08, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> "Todd Torrey" <todd_torrey at hotmail.com> writes:
> 
> > I'm running RH9. I've noticed that when I change the hostname using
> > RH's network configuration wizard sometimes applications will take a
> > very long time to launch. Changing the hostname back to the default
> > 'localhost.localdomain' seems to fix the problem. Does anybody know
> > why this is so?
> 
> I don't know what the RH network configuration wizard does,
> chances are that the applications are trying to resolve the local
> hostname and failing.  You should add your preferred hostname to
> /etc/hosts or add them to DNS somehow.
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Scott Harrison <harris41 at msu.edu>
Michigan State University