Re: localhost in /etc/hosts
On 2006-11-22 13:41:22 +0100, David Jardine wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 12:17:03AM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
>
> > Well, the result of the hostname command depends on the /etc/hosts
> > file and if your configuration is incorrect, it may not give you a
> > consistent result.
>
> Not here. It uses the /etc/hostname file. I changed the entry in
> /etc/hostname to "jim", rebooted, and was greeted with
"hostname" without argument uses /etc/hostname (via the gethostname(2)
function), but if you give the --fqdn option, resolver(3) will be used
too, i.e. /etc/resolv.conf and/or /etc/host.conf files, as documented
in these man pages. "hostname -s" seems to return the short host name
corresponding to the FQDN (but the hostname(1) man page is not clear).
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