On Mon, 2003-02-17 at 02:35, Buchan Milne wrote: > James Sparenberg wrote: > > On Sun, 2003-02-16 at 04:45, Buchan Milne wrote: > > > >>On 16 Feb 2003, James Sparenberg wrote: > >> > >> > >>>All, > >>> > >>> I've run into this problem with cooker the default creation of > >>>/etc/hosts when installing a nic card is > >>> > >>>127.0.0.1 localhost > >>> > >>> > >>>Now a number of apps like evolution need to "resolve" the local > >>>hostname. Which by default is localhost.localdomain and they can't. > >>>The fix is to have the default hosts file > >>> > >>>127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost > >>> > >> > >>What does 'hostname' give you? I guess localhost.localdomain. So, you will > >>notice that it can't be hardcoded as localhost.localdomain, it should be > >>set to `hostname`. > > > > > > That's fine meaning it is as you stated.... but prior to 9.1 the second > > example was the "default" setup of hosts, whereas with with the current > > localhost.localdomain is missing and does cause problems with Evolution > > and proftpd.... I understand the solution and so do you. But, a number > > of new users won't. All they see is a product that doesn't work. > > > > I agree, I just did not want the proposal to be hardcoding > localhost.localdomain, since that is just as broken. It needs to be able > to find `hostname` to work.
True enough.... All I want is out of the box to give the new user the feeling of "It works but I need to customize" instead of "it gives me failed messages this crap is no good." James > > Buchan
