Re: [Solved] Re: syslog and hostname ?

1999-12-31 Thread Nate Duehr
I see someone already replied to you on this, but didn't explain it. You had to switch localhost and aphro in the hosts file because when it looks like this: 127.0.0.1 localhost aphro It's saying that the machine at 127.0.0.1 is REALLY localhost, but it has an ALIAS of aphro. Since

Re: [Solved] Re: syslog and hostname ?

1999-12-31 Thread aphro
On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Carel Fellinger wrote: cfelli >isn't order relevant here? I thought the first was used as the canonical cfelli >name, the other(s) as aliases. if so try: cfelli >127.0.0.1 aphro localhost cfelli > cfelli >or even better: cfelli >127.0.0.1 aphro.your.domain aphro lo

Re: [Solved] Re: syslog and hostname ?

1999-12-31 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Wed, Dec 29, 1999 at 11:55:59PM -0800, aphro wrote: > On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Paul J. Keenan wrote: > i just removed the 'aphro' from my /etc/hosts's line that was > > 127.0.0.1 localhost aphro isn't order relevant here? I thought the first was used as the canonical name, the other(s) as ali

Re: [Solved] Re: syslog and hostname ?

1999-12-30 Thread aphro
On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, hypnos wrote: hypnos >Try putting aphro first, as in: hypnos > hypnos >127.0.0.1 aphro localhost hypnos > hypnos >I remember doing that before for some reason, I'm not hypnos >sure if that's why or not. that worked too! cool..thanks! nate -

Re: [Solved] Re: syslog and hostname ?

1999-12-30 Thread hypnos
On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, aphro wrote: > i just removed the 'aphro' from my /etc/hosts's line that was > > 127.0.0.1 localhost aphro > > and restarted syslogd and it was back to 'normal' if i add aphro back and > restart again it goes back to localhost ..odd! (just tried this just now) Try putti

[Solved] Re: syslog and hostname ?

1999-12-30 Thread aphro
On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, Paul J. Keenan wrote: paul >So I would first check that /etc/hostname contains the single word paul >aphro. i just checked it again, it does, that file never changed. paul >It seems that the syslogd gets its info from calling uname(2), which paul >at kernel level invokes sys