On May 20, 2006, at 8:41, William L. Maltby wrote: > 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. I completely agree, yet the Red Hat (and therefore CentOS) installer insists on putting the actual host name after localhost and localhost.localdomain in the loopback line of /etc/hosts (at least it did the last time I did an install from scratch, which was a while ago). Alfred