On Thu, 21 Dec 2006 21:45:07 -0800 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: ...[snip]... > Oops. I should have known I could answer my own question with a > little more digging. I now see that there's > hostname > hostname --fqdn > dnsdomainname > and they all work by looking in /etc/host.conf, and if (as is true > here) that says > to use the hosts file first, it looks for it in /etc/hosts, which has > the fqdn. I seem to dimly recall that it actually looks for the first > non-comment, but that > cannot be quite right, because localhost comes first in my copy. > Maybe it's the first > routable IP number? > > I think this sub-problem is solved. I've commented my config files a > bit more, so I > won't make the same mistake again. > > ++ kevin
Now, I'm curious! On my system, I see the following: dnsdomainname osagesoftware.com hostname osage.osagesoftware.com hostname --fqdn osage.osagesoftware.com /etc/hosts contains: 192.168.1.10 osage.osagesoftware.com osage "strace -feopen" shows that /etc/hosts is opened by "hostname --fqdn" but not "hostname". What have I got wrong? Regards, David P.S. Greetings from one Kiewit alumni to another ... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
