7 Mar
2011
7 Mar
'11
11:28 p.m.
On Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 09:31:17PM +0100, Kai Schaetzl wrote:
Usually, it's rather an advantage because in cases where you would just get "localhost" you now get some meaningful name.
You can use the bare hostname as an alias in /etc/hosts, which is probably marginally better than using the FQDN.
In CentOS, I believe that rc.sysinit will try to set the hostname from its FQDN (or whatever you have set in /etc/sysconfig/network) without mucking about with /etc/hosts.
--keith
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