On Tue, Jul 22, 2008, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > 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. The file was OK after the kickstart install, and after a ``yum update''. We install about 240 packages under the OpenPKG portable package management system which may have caused this, but I have not seen this problem prior to CentOS 5.2. I did not check to see the status of the /etc/hosts file after configuring the network with system-config-network, and before installing OpenPKG and its packages. I may create a new VM, and run through the network configuration etc. to see where this is happening (VMware snapshots and revert sure simplify things like this :-). Bill -- INTERNET: bill at celestial.com Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC URL: http://www.celestial.com/ PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way Voice: (206) 236-1676 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820 Fax: (206) 232-9186 Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper. -- George Orwell