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