On Wed, Dec 29, 1999 at 03:06:36PM -0800, aphro wrote:
> can someone tell me where syslog gets the hostname from? its marking all
> my logs using the hostname localhost.
>
> my $HOSTNAME is still set to 'aphro'
>
> my /etc/hosts has a line:
> 127.0.0.1 localhost aphro
>
> and i recently added a domain called 'aphro' to my local DNS so if i
> 'nslookup aphro' it resolves to 10.10.10.1
>
> ever since i made the changes syslog thinkks the hostname is changed ..
>
> ideas ??
>
>
> thanks!!
>
> nate
The system hostname is set up at startup from /etc/init.d/hostname.sh
which is simply
hostname --file /etc/hostname
So I would first check that /etc/hostname contains the single word
aphro.
It seems that the syslogd gets its info from calling uname(2), which
at kernel level invokes sys_gethostname in /usr/src/linux/kernel/sys.c
HTH.
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Regards,
Paul
