On Sat, 2006-05-20 at 08:41 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote:
On Sat, 2006-05-20 at 07:48 -0400, Alfred von Campe wrote:
On May 20, 2006, at 7:33, Johnny Hughes wrote:
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Put the localhost name first in the line, like this:
127.0.0.1 localhost xxxxx yyyy.yyy
I've seen this cause many problems with other tools as well (not just mysql). I always thought it was wrong to include the actual hostname in the localhost line, and it's one of the first thing I change after building a system. Does any one else think it's a good idea to include the hostname in this line?
If you mean
127.0.0.1 mynodename ...instead of
127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain
for example?
From rom *everything* I have encountered and read (from knowledgeable folks?), only "localhost" and closely related should be there. Your "real" node name should be on a line that assigns it's real IP address.
HTH
The problem is ... if you have DHCP ... you need the name of the machine in the same line, as your IP address changes