On Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 09:31:17PM +0100, Kai Schaetzl wrote: > > Usually, it's rather an advantage because > in cases where you would just get "localhost" you now get some meaningful > name. You can use the bare hostname as an alias in /etc/hosts, which is probably marginally better than using the FQDN. In CentOS, I believe that rc.sysinit will try to set the hostname from its FQDN (or whatever you have set in /etc/sysconfig/network) without mucking about with /etc/hosts. --keith -- kkeller at wombat.san-francisco.ca.us -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20110307/72cf41ad/attachment-0005.sig>