Hi David,
According to my understanding that is correct. As in the hostname should be
on the localhost line. If you ip changed then you would have to update that
line if you do it as you have suggested. What I am still trying to find a
clear answer on is how do you handle multihomed hosts and should the
hostname in /etc/sysconfig/network really be set to the fqdn? If you do that
then it breaks the command hostname and you get the same result using
hostname and hostname -f. Hopefully someone else can clear it up.
Regards
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 1:12 PM, David Lee <David.Lee(a)ecmwf.int> wrote:
(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?)
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