Re: Bug in the /etc/hosts - Localhost in syslog
Hi,
On Sat, Jan 28, 2006 at 12:46:58AM +0800, Navarre of Anjov wrote:
> I have discovered that, or it seems that, the installer is writting a
> /etc/hosts file record that causes the host name that is recorded in the
> /var/log/syslog to be of the form of
>
> Jan 28 00:38:48 localhost exiting on signal 15
>
> after I corrected the /etc/hosts to read
>
> 127.0.0.1 nyssah
>
> and retarted syslogd I got
>
> Jan 28 00:38:49 nyssah syslogd 1.4.1#17ubuntu3: restart.
>
> This seems to be in both the 5.1 Ubuntu and Debian Sarge but not in
> Debian Woody. As I was generally using the Woody installer and upgrading
> to Sarge I was not aware of the problem until recently.
Right, this changed some time ago. One reason for this can be found in
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2004/06/msg00466.html and this
thread.
> Wilst not a show stopper it needs to be fixed.
Why do you think it needs to be fixed?
Jens
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