[wplug] Hostname behavior

[Jonathan S. Billings]

On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 02:23:26PM -0400, Brandon Kuczenski wrote:
> My computer is named 'plaza.'  It says so in its /etc/hostname file, which 
> contains 'plaza\n'.  When I run 'hostname', 'plaza' is what's returned.
> 
> However, when I run 'hostname -f', I get 'localhost.localdomain', which 
> seems like a misconfiguration.

it looks like what's happening is that the hostname program is running
'gethostbyname(plaza)', which uses named, /etc/hosts and other methods
defined by your nsswitch.conf.  Since 'plaza' is in /etc/hosts as
127.0.0.1 first, I suspect that is why you get back
localhost.localdomain.  Changing /etc/hosts or the order in
/etc/nsswitch.conf would change the results.


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Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>

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