Hostname funniness

Tollef Fog Heen tfheen at canonical.com
Thu Nov 18 07:54:50 CST 2004


* "Lorenzo E. Danielsson" 

| Can somebody tell me where I went wrong? I'm running hostname from zsh
| on all three systems. I haven't begun damaging files in /etc/ yet
| either. I have pretty much a normal Warty install with a (partial) Hoary
| upgrade.

It's a bug in debian-installer, it makes an /etc/hosts file similar
to:

127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost shonap.err.no shonap 

while it should rather read:

127.0.0.1 shonap.err.no shonap localhost.localdomain localhost

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