[Solved] Re: syslog and hostname ?

[aphro <nate@firetrail.com>]

On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Paul J. Keenan wrote:

paul >So I would first check that /etc/hostname contains the single word
paul >aphro.

i just checked it again, it does, that file never changed.

paul >It seems that the syslogd gets its info from calling uname(2), which
paul >at kernel level invokes sys_gethostname in /usr/src/linux/kernel/sys.c

uname -n gives just 'aphro'

i just removed the 'aphro' from my /etc/hosts's line that was

127.0.0.1	localhost aphro

and restarted syslogd and it was back to 'normal' if i add aphro back and
restart again it goes back to localhost ..odd! (just tried this just now)

thanks!

nate

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