Re: localhost.localdomain

[John <red computerdatasafe com au>]

On Wed, 14 May 2003, Daniel Nilsson wrote:

> 
> Hi all,
> 
> My RedHat-installs has the following line in /etc/hosts (host1 is the
> real hostname):
> 
> 127.0.0.1               host1 localhost.localdomain localhost
> 
> Im running sendmail as null-client.
> All root mail comes from root local localdomain because sendmail thinks
> this is the domain of the machine.
> 
> I see 2 solutions to this problem.
> 
> A) configure sendmail with the correct domainname. Not a very good idea,
> this should be configured correctly by the OS I think.
> 
> B) change /etc/hosts to:
> 
> 127.0.0.1               localhost.localdomain localhost
> 192.168.0.2             host1 host1.domain.com
> 
> To get the real hostname and the real FQDN tied to the real IP.
> 
> Comments? Why does RedHat use localhost.localdomain? And why is the
> hostname set on 127.0.0.1 and not on the real ip?
> 

How is this a kickstart issue?




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