On Sat, 2008-09-13 at 11:31 +0200, Niki Kovacs wrote: > Marcus Moeller a écrit : > > > > It should look like this: > > > > 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost calimero.local calimero > > > > When I do this, I get the following result (after rebooting): > > [kikinovak at calimero ~]$ hostname > calimero.local > [kikinovak at calimero ~]$ hostname --fqdn > localhost.localdomain > > This looks weird to me. IIRC, the 127.0.0.1 should normally have only the "localhost" thing. $ cat /etc/hosts # Do not remove the following line, or various programs # that require network functionality will fail. 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost ::1 localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6 That's all I have in that file. $ hostname centos501.homegroannetworking $ hostname --fqdn centos501.homegroannetworking $ cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 # VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO=dhcp HWADDR=xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx # I've masked out MAC address for this post ONBOOT=yes DHCP_HOSTNAME=CentOS501 TYPE=Ethernet USERCTL=no IPV6INIT=no PEERDNS=yes If you are not getting your address from a DHCP server, there are minor differences. > <snip sig stuff> HTH -- Bill