Re: /etc/hosts file

On 21/11/06, John Summerfield <debian herakles homelinux org> wrote:

Kashif Ali wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have been playing with kickstarts for a while, however i never understood
> why when you have the line:
>
> network --device eth0 --bootproto static --ip 192.168.1.8 --netmask
> 255.255.255.0 --gateway 192.168.1.254 --nameserver 192.168.1.252 --hostname
> host.mydomain.com
>
> kickstart creates a /etc/hosts file as follows:
>
>
> 127.0.0.1               host.mydomain.com myhost
> localhost.localdomainlocalhost
>
> why doesn't it do it correcty as:
>
> 127.0.0.1              localhost.localdomain localhost
> 192.168.1.8          host.mydomain.com host

I don't want either; I use DNS for all my LANs.

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John

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