/etc/hosts?

(cobbler 2.0.11; on RHEL 5.6 server; installing RHEL 5.6 clients) I'm making good progress with cobbler, and trying to keep things as simple as possible. But I've spotted a problem. A freshly installed system (say "client1") has a hosts file that contains just one active IPv4 line: 127.0.0.1 client1.my.domain client1 localhost.localdomain localhost Shouldn't that be two lines, something like: 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost 10.156.x.y client1.my.domain client1 That is, putting my real hostname and real IP as a separate entry. This seems so intuitive, and likely to be so commonly wanted, that I presume there must be some hook in cobbler that I've missed. (Or do I have to write some sort of post-install snippet to manipulate /etc/hosts to achieve this?) -- : David Lee : ECMWF (Data Handling System) : Shinfield Park : Reading RG2 9AX : Berkshire : : tel: +44-118-9499 362 : email: david.lee(a)ecmwf.int