I think Linux is complaining about an inconsistency.  Somewhere (maybe
/etc/hosts?) kdtop.tmgdomain is referred to as the system name, and that
will have to be found and changed.

-- Bhaskar

P.S. In case it is /etc/hosts - there really is very little value to
specifying the name of the system and its IP address there.

On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 09:30, Kevin Toppenberg wrote:
> Yeah, I'm confused.  Here is a log:
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] kdtop]$ su -
> Password:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# hostname -s
> hostname: Unknown host
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# hostname kdtop.somedomain
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# hostname -s
> hostname: Unknown host
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# hostname kdtop.tmgdomain
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# hostname -s
> kdtop
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# hostname localhost.localdomain
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# hostname -s
> hostname: Unknown host
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]#
> 
> It gets confused when I specify the name to be
> localhost.localdomain, or kdtop.somedomain, but seems
> happy with kdtop.tmgdomain.
> 
> Puzzling.
> I guess its not that important, but it would be nice
> to be able to get it to work.
> 
> Kevin

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