[CentOS] /etc/hosts missing localhost?
Rudi Ahlers
Rudi at SoftDux.com
Tue Jul 22 19:26:03 UTC 2008
Bill Campbell wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 21, 2008, Jim Perrin wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 9:20 PM, Bill Campbell <centos at celestial.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Is there any reason why /etc/hosts would be missing the line,
>>> 127.0.0.1 localhost?
>>>
>> Nope. It's there by default in some form or another.
>>
>> By default, it usually looks like this ->
>>
>> 127.0.0.1 installname localhost.localdomain localhost
>> ::1 localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6
>>
>> If you don't have anything like this in your /etc/hosts, you either
>> need to find a mirror and begin yelling at responsible parties, or
>> stalk whomever else has root on this particular machine.
>>
>
> I guess I could yell at myself as I'm doing kickstart installs from
> a local mirror.
>
> I found the same thing on two CentOS 5.1 installs here, one on a
> VMware VM, the other on real iron. The wierd thing is that the
> base VMware VM I have that I copy to create new VMs looks OK.
> Now I'm going to have to poke around to see what's causing this
> line to be deleted.
>
> Bill
>
I had a similar problem using OpenVZ images, installed from kickstart -
almost like it's leaving some stuff out by default. So I ended up
creating the file manually and adding it to the kickstart file to be
copied over.
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Rudi Ahlers
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