On Sun, 2003-02-16 at 04:45, Buchan Milne wrote: > On 16 Feb 2003, James Sparenberg wrote: > > > All, > > > > I've run into this problem with cooker the default creation of > > /etc/hosts when installing a nic card is > > > > 127.0.0.1 localhost > > > > > > Now a number of apps like evolution need to "resolve" the local > > hostname. Which by default is localhost.localdomain and they can't. > > The fix is to have the default hosts file > > > > 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost > > > > What does 'hostname' give you? I guess localhost.localdomain. So, you will > notice that it can't be hardcoded as localhost.localdomain, it should be > set to `hostname`.
That's fine meaning it is as you stated.... but prior to 9.1 the second example was the "default" setup of hosts, whereas with with the current localhost.localdomain is missing and does cause problems with Evolution and proftpd.... I understand the solution and so do you. But, a number of new users won't. All they see is a product that doesn't work. > > If this is done then a lot of problems disappear. ( like evolution > > taking 5 minutes or more to start.) > > Of course, people in a *real* network (ie with working dns) won't see this > issue ;-)
