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gethostname() returns 'karlmalone.localdomain' I need it to return karlmalone.local.tonytyson.com which is the fqdn. I can fix this by manually doing hostname karlmalone.local.tonytyson.com but it gets reset upon reboot. I believe ...
  1. 11-29-2007 #1
    ttyson99
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    gethostname() returns unexpected result

    gethostname() returns 'karlmalone.localdomain' I need it to return karlmalone.local.tonytyson.com which is the fqdn. I can fix this by manually doing hostname karlmalone.local.tonytyson.com but it gets reset upon reboot. I believe I have /etc/hosts set properly. Any idea why this occurs?

    /etc/hosts

    127.0.0.1 localhost
    192.168.1.99 karlmalone.local.tonytyson.com karlmalone


    [ttyson@karlmalone ~]$ hostname
    karlmalone
    [ttyson@karlmalone ~]$ hostname --fqdn
    karlmalone.local.tonytyson.com
    [ttyson@karlmalone ~]$ hostname -d
    local.tonytyson.com

    gethostname() returns karlmalone.localdomain

    Thanks in advance
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  2. 11-30-2007 #2
    mrjohnson
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    Hi,

    You need to setup a search domain in /etc/resolv.conf...
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