Hostname configuration on DHCP/DNS server: /etc/hosts vs. /etc/hostname

[Chris G]

On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 10:37:55PM +0200, Niki Kovacs wrote:
> Le 27/03/2011 22:30, Chris G a écrit :
> >>
> >Well when Network Manager came along (when I upgraded from 10.04 to
> >10.10) and changed my /etc/hosts from my simple version to the version
> >with localhost.localdomain etc. in it *I* certainly got error messages
> >from both apache2 and leafnode complaining that they couldn't determine
> >the FQDN.
> >
> >When I changed it back and un-installed Network Manager the error
> >messages went away.
> >
> 
> Please take no offense, but there's no sense in running
> NetworkManager on a server.
> 
Very true, but it comes by default in a standard Ubuntu installation.

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Chris Green