[CentOS] Hostname question

Johnny Hughes johnny at centos.org
Mon Apr 8 18:45:31 UTC 2013


On 04/08/2013 01:35 PM, Jason T. Slack-Moehrle wrote:
> Hi Mark,
>
> I did a reboot and not `hostname -f` says: mail.
>
> But I think that will still be wrong in terms of what Zimbra is looking for.
>
> When I did the install I set the hostname to `webserver.localdomain`, so I
> see in /var/log/messages:
> `Apr  7 12:35:48 webserver kernel: SRAT: PXM 0 -> APIC 0 -> Node 0`
>
> I think I might need to trick Zimbra bu changing:
>
> 192.168.1.27 mail mail.meowbox.me meowbox.me
>
> to
>
> 192.168.1.27 mail.meowbox.me mail.meowbox.me meowbox.me
>
>
> Jason
>
> On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 11:26 AM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote:
>> Jason T. Slack-Moehrle wrote:
>>> CentOS 6.4, clean install.
>>> Zimbra 8.0.3
>>>
>>> I am behind a PfSense box using a virtual IP. So the IP of the box is
>>> 192.168.1.27
>>>
>>> I entered this in /etc/hosts:
>>>
>>> 127.0.0.1   localhost localhost.localdomain localhost4
>>> localhost4.localdomain4
>>> ::1         localhost localhost.localdomain localhost6
>>> localhost6.localdomain6
>>> 192.168.1.27 mail mail.meowbox.me meowbox.me
>>>
>>> but `hostname -f` says:
>>>
>>> $ hostname -f
>>> hostname: Unknown host
>>>
>>> Do I need to put the public IP for where this record resolves? Since
>>> PFSense is forwarding traffic from it to the virtual IP?
>> Quick check: is the hostname showing in /var/log/messages? If not, did you
>> either reboot the box, or set the hostname manually, or restart the
>> network? It won't take effect until you do one of those.

What is the hostname listed in /etc/sysconfig/network ?


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