On Friday 18 Jul 2014 09:31:53 Ken Schneider - openSUSE wrote:
On 07/18/2014 08:21 AM, apc@abcj.demon.co.uk pecked at the keyboard and
wrote:
On Friday 18 Jul 2014 03:16:39 David C. Rankin wrote:
Brain-trust,
Here is a curiosity in 13.1. After install, the hostname command returned
the fully qualified domain name instead of properly returning the hostname alone. Eg:
$ hostname alchemy.3111skyline.com
$ hostname -f alchemy.3111skyline.com
This caused problems in some application that are expecting only the
hostname part. Picking through the usual list of suspects, it turned out
that /etc/HOSTNAME was the guilty party. It contained: # cat HOSTNAME
alchemy.3111skyline.com
That was odd, in the past, /etc/HOSTNAME generally included only the
hostname part and not the dnsdomainname as well. Fixing /etc/HOSTNAME fixed the problem.
Has anyone else noticed this? If this can be confirmed, I'll file the bug
report, but there is also the possibility I entered the full hostname during install when it called for only the hostname part. I guess in that instance I should still file a bug report because the installer should be smart enough to validate the input. What says the list?
Hi David,
I just had a look at an opensuse 13.1 VM I have installed in a test rig (this one runs kolab which requires correct response from the hostname commands) and I do not see what you are seeing. Here is the output from this VM andrew@kolab:~> cat /etc/HOSTNAME kolab.test.rig andrew@kolab:~> hostname kolab andrew@kolab:~> hostname -s kolab andrew@kolab:~> hostname -f kolab.test.rig
You may want to check your alias' to see if something is set different for hostname.
hostname isn't a link and is found in /bin no shell alias either. Interestingly I have factory VM set up on the same virtual network which has linux.site in HOSTNAME but "hostname -f" reports linux.test.rig which shows that the domain part has come from the dhcp (dns-masq on the kvm host). The kolab vm is set up with static IP I do not know if that helps David A -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org