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Glenn Steen wrote:
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<pre wrap="">I solved it as suggested by adding a
HOSTNAME=`/bin/hostname`
export HOSTNAME
to the start up script, but this should work out of the box.
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<pre wrap=""><!---->I agree. Could you set it like I outline above, just to see if it
makes a difference?
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It does make the diffrence.<br>
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<pre wrap="">I suspect this is related to the various diffrent notions of domain and host
name under Linux (solaris is simpler here)
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<pre wrap=""><!---->... There can be only one!:-)
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There is dnsdomainname and domainname which is the nis/YP domainname
these can be diffrent.<br>
There as discovered is the hostname in /etc/sysconfig/network, which
the out of the box install seems to leave as
HOSTNAME=localhost.localdomain<br>
while domainname returns blank.<br>
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<pre wrap="">on the box the dns domain name is set but the domiain name not!
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<pre wrap=""><!---->Sounds like it is jumbled then. Try setting it as suggested and do a
reboot (perhaps make sure your "login script hack" is disabled).
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Jumbled is slightly subjective given it is out of the box! Perhaps a
RH bug?<br>
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>From my prespective it is fixed. BTW I never said but I am using the
TAR version not the RPM!<br>
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Erik<br>
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<pre wrap="">Erik
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Cheers
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