Re: Debian /etc/hosts Behavior

[ms419@freezone.co.uk]

Hmm ... I am also running unstable; a fresh install. Fresh as fresh can 
be! I assumed that the installer had created this line - it asks for 
the hostname when configuring the network - but I'd have to do another 
installation to be sure.

Jack

On Apr 18, 2004, at 11:47 AM, Ken Irving wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 09:33:11AM -0700, Marc Wilson wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 10:32:29AM -0700, ms419@freezone.co.uk wrote:
> > > ---
> > > 127.0.0.1	kas	localhost
> > > ---
> > > This realized, it was a quick fix:
> > > ---
> > > 127.0.0.1	localhost
> > > ---
> > >
> > > If this entry prevents "hostname -f" and "hostname -d" from working,
> > > why does Debian create it?
> >
> > Debian doesn't, on any of my machines:
> > ...
> > Personally, what YOU had in /etc/hosts looks like something that was 
> > added
> > locally.
>
> I had the same thing on one machine running unstable (hostname before
> localhost), but not on others running stable.  I recently used the
> hostname command (followed by some grepping and editing other files
> under /etc) to change the host's name; maybe that was responsible for
> this format?
>
> --
> Ken Irving, fnkci@uaf.edu
>
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